Jacob's Wake
Jacob's Wake Author: Michael Cook
First Performance: 1975, Lennoxville, Quebec Province
Published: 1975
Genre: Trag. in 2 acts; Newfoundland dialect
Setting: The Blackburns' home on the Newfoundland coast, 1970s
Cast: 4m, 2f
Skipper Blackburn is lying upstairs in bed, as he has done for the last 30 years since his elder son Jacob died. He is waited on by his long-suffering daughter-in-law Rosie. His surviving children are Mary, a prim teacher, and Winston, Rosie's husband, a good-for-nothing who lives off his illegal still and welfare payments. Rosie and Winston's three sons come home for Easter: Alonzo, Brad with his wife Mary, and Wayne, all of them with guilty secrets, although Wayne is a member of the provincial legislature. In less than 24 hours, the action unfolds and the past is revealed. Alonzo forges...
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