Description
You are Eugenia "Jim" Watts, an ambulance driver in the Spanish Civil War. Use the arrow keys to pick up the pinkos in your ambulance and avoid the gunfire of fascists.
About Jesus Chrysler:
"What I wanted was to be speaking of the world. The Real World, the right-next-door-to-possible Red world! Crossing the pond to fight the good fight, and stuck peddling congeniality. Imagine if I'd iterated one single exchange that I'd had with a wounded man, as he was being swept up into the back of my ambulance?" - Jim Watts in Jesus Chrysler
Praxis Theatre presents Jesus Chrysler by Tara Beagan, in which we meet Eugenia "Jim" Watts and Dorothy "Dee" Livesay, two of Toronto's original radical organizers. Based out of U of Ts Hart House Theatre, the two were part of a group that staged agitprop plays in the 1930s that traveled throughout South-Western Ontario in Jims car, which they called The Jesus Chrysler.
Inspired by NYCs Group Theatre and the works of Clifford Odets, they founded a new theatre company called Theatre of Action, presenting the Canadian premiere of Waiting for Lefty and a number of anti-fascist works. By 1937, Jim had left for Spain where a civil war was raging, and hosted a radio show, wrote articles for a progressive newspaper and became an ambulance driver in the war.
Running in Toronto Nov. 29 to Dec. 11
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