“MINE is definitely my most ambitious project to date, and I’m so grateful to RISER for the opportunity to develop it further. To be able to reconnect with my hometown and this part of its history, to share this story with people thousands of kilometres and a century away from where and when it happened – it’s an honour and a gift.”
-Ashleigh Hicks

MINE

Common Ground Arts & RISER | Backstage Theatre at the Fringe Theatre Adventures | January 2023 & March 4-5, 2023

Hundreds of feet below the ocean floor, in the dark, in the damp, the men of the deeps mine for coal. Down below, they’re forced to crawl – but on the surface, they’ll resist, and rise again. Based on an unbelievable true story, MINE shares the struggle of the revolutionary Cape Breton coal mining communities at the turn of the twentieth century.

CAST & CREATIVE TEAM
Playwright: Ashleigh Hicks
Director: Andrew Ritchie
Dramaturgy: Evan Medd

Ensemble: Patrick Lundeen, Kristen Padayas, Geoffrey Simon Brown, Sarah Emslie, Alexander Ariate, Marguerite Lawler, and Priya Narine
Stage Manager: Andrea Murphy
Set/Costume/Props Designer: Rebecca Cypher
Sound Designer: Zac Strom
Lighting Design: Rory Turner

Lighting Operator: Tyler Wicks
Sound Operator: Kris Sinding
RISER Edmonton Producer: Mac Brock
RISER Edmonton Production Manager: Kat Evans

RISER Edmonton Associate Producer: Steven Sobolewski
ASL Interpreters: Robyn Lavender, Andrea Konowalec, Gail Benin, and Diane DeAndrade

SUPPORT
Developed with support from the Major Matt Mason Collective, Common Ground Arts Society, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Edmonton Arts Council.

This is Canadian Actors’ Equity Asociation production under the Artists’ Collective Policy.