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Front Runners - Performance
FrontRunners is a play written by Laura Robinson, a sports journalist who has also written, Crossing the Line (1998), Great Girls (2005) with Maija Robinson, and Black Tights (2002). The play deals with a true story of ten aboriginal boys who were chosen to carry the torch to the 1967 Pan Am Games in Winnipeg. Nine of the ten young men chosen for the 1967 Pan Am Games torch run were from residential schools. The young athletes ran with the torch for 800km along an ancient messenger route from St. Paul, Minn. only to have to pass it off to a non-aboriginal runner when they arrived at the stadium in Winnipeg. Submitted by Artmob Guest on Thu, 07/16/2009 - 20:26. |
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