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HOME News / Halifax NEWS Toronto Documentary play debuting in Canada Halifax tells the story of farmer's World fight with GMO giant VIEWS ENTERTAINMENT Seeds, debuting at Halifax's Neptune Theatre this week, tells the story of Percy Schmeiser, a farmer accused of planting Monsanto’s genetically modified seeds. LIFE WHEELS.CA Tweet BUSINESS SPORTS YOUR HOME HOROSCOPES GAMES FEATURES SPECIAL FEATURES CONTESTS FLYERS

ZANE WOODFORD / METRO Order this photo Actors Amelia Sargisson, Eric Peterson and Tanja Jacobs act out a scene from Seeds on the Scotiabank Stage at Neptune Theatre in Halifax on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2017. The documentary Most Popular play telling the David versus Goliath story of a Saskatchewan farmer’s fight against Monsanto runs till Oct. 1. Toronto police officer admits to inappropriate By: Zane Woodford Metro Published on Tue Sep 12 2017 sexual relationship with youth group member A play making its debut at Neptune Theatre this week tells the real-life story of a Saskatchewan farmer’s fight against GMO giant Monsanto. Dartmouth coworkers win $1 million on their Seeds, produced by documentary theatre company Porte Parole and directed by weekly lottery ticket Chris Abraham, tells the story of Percy Schmeiser, a farmer accused of planting Monsanto’s genetically modified canola seeds on his farm. 'My hands were on her neck,' Garnier says Actor Eric Peterson, known for his roles in Canadian TV series Corner Gas and Street during police interview Legal, plays Schmeiser.

“As an actor it’s fun to play the little guy against the big Goliath,” Peterson said in an Surgeon accused of interview. sexual misconduct, harassing coworkers “This play was also interesting to me because it’s documentary theatre. I’d never done with amputated toes one of these plays before, where you work in this way.”

The dialogue, written by Annabel Soutar, is taken verbatim from interviews with the real-life characters and court transcripts.

Peterson said it invites the audience to think about the court case that inspired it, in which Schmeiser went to the Supreme Court of Canada, eventually losing to Monsanto.

“We’re not watching some entertainment that’s trying to take us out of our world. We’re watching an entertainment that allows you to think about it,” Peterson said. The road to simpler small-business billing But it doesn’t tell the audience what to think.

“It’s not a polemic in any sense. It doesn’t come out and say, ‘Percy is the good guy and Monsanto is the bad guy.’ That’s left up to you, the audience member,” he said.

The play has toured the country since its debut in 2012 in Toronto, getting rave Six gifts that may help Taking a new reviews across Canada. save the world this approach to holiday season community safet… Seeds launched in Halifax on Tuesday night with a pay what you can performance, and runs on the Scotiabank Stage till Oct. 1. Tickets are available online at neptunetheatre.com. Is your smartphone on 5 reasons we need Canada’s fastest w… more urban green Editors' Picks space… Metro Science: Power Who would — and plants of the future, wouldn't — make the science says Santa is perfect Blue Jays real, and Trump owner psychology Black in Halifax: The Black in Halifax: The challenges of racism, experience of moving transphobia and to #HalifaxWhileBlack homophobia

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