One night only. MAP and CJNU Radio present "U-20", a radio play by Winnipeg playwright Gary Jarvis, performed live for a studio audience.
On May 7th, 1915 at 11:05 in the morning, conventions of warfare changed forever. The German submarine U-20 sank an unarmed and unescorted ocean liner. The name RMS Lusitania, and the cries of her drowning passengers still ring in our ears, one hundred years later.
Witness the sinking through the eyes of the man who torpedoed her: U-Boat Captain Walther Schweiger. Watch and listen as world and personal history collide, and the consequences of this event send waves through two world wars, through Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and into today, as innocent civilians are still being caught in intentional cross fire.
Were the deaths of 1,200 men, women and children on the Lusitania an act of war, or murder?
U-20, a radio play by Winnipeg playwright Gary Jarvis, will be presented as a “live audience studio recording” by 93.7 CJNU Nostalgia Radio and the Manitoba Association of Playwrights, in a one-night-only performance on Thursday, May 21st, 2015 at 7:00pm at the Gas Station Arts Centre, 445 River Avenue.
Tickets – $12.00 each – are available from the Manitoba Association of Playwrights by email at mbplay@mts.net or by phone at 204-942-8941; and, at the Gas Station Arts Centre, 445 River Avenue in person, by phone at 204-285-9477, or by email to nick@gsac.ca .
