Go to this show not because you should (although if you believe in rewarding an honest effort to honour the human victims of profit-driven natural resource ‘development’, you should), but to see a wonderful perfomance by Mikaela Dyke. Working with verbatim transcripts of interviews done by a Newfoundland anthropologist, she presents touching and powerful renderings of six victims’ stories. Yes, these are delivered in various shades of working-class Newfoundlandese, but please don’t be put off by the CVV reviewer, who apparently couldn’t understand most of it. He must have either been very tired or suffering from some cognitive impairment. Surely, rather than asking-- as the CVV reviewer does --for a 'dialect dial-down' (they’ll no doubt have great fun with that phrase in the pubs of St. John’s!), we should enjoy and celebrate the fact that English isn’t spoken in the same way across all parts of this country.
-- Edited by Jeremy on Monday 27th of August 2012 12:38:25 PM
