Porkbelly Futures

A recent addition to the Futures' performances is March Storm, about a horrendous maritime disaster off Canada's Atlantic coast. A group of fisherman participating in the 1914 spring seal hunt was stranded on the ice floes when a vicious storm struck without warning. After 3 days of hurricane winds and freezing rain, 78 men were found encased in ice. Paul, Marty and Rebecca portray different characters in Stuart's song, with Paul on board ship, Marty on the ice and Rebecca on shore.
The definitive account of this disaster is Cassie Brown's Death on the Ice. Another treatment can be found in a marvelous chapter of Wayne Johnston's The Colony of Unrequited Dreams.