After nearly 100 performances, as a stage show and in abridged versions for classrooms, folklore conferences, and even dinner theatre, Down North-The Play is available here in its full version, with photos from the St. Ann's Bay Players' stage show. Filled with a mix of sad, funny, and often heart-wrenching stories-most of it intimately spoken directly to the audience-Down North brings alive the heart of Cape Breton’s Magazine and of Cape Breton Island. Here are stories of the North River lumber woods, Margaree fishing tales, old cures, going to the "Boston States," houseparties, and marriage, corpses, and amazing ghostly lights.
An afterword by Ronald Caplan offers an extraordinary "Make this play your own!" invitation to students and community groups everywhere to remake the play in the light of their own history and folklore.