Playwright

• Elliot Leyton

Director

• Steven Bush
• Jane Foster

Cast

• Donna Butt Carrie Bartlett/Victoria Janes
• Rick Boland Sammy Byrne/Alphonse Reilly/Pat Sullivan
• Ron Hynes Jack Callaghan/Paul Duff
• Rhonda Payne Wanda Duff/Rebecca Flynn
• Bembo Davies Harry Andrews/Kevin Kinsella/Alonzo Malraux

Crew

• Rhonda Payne Publicist
• Pam Morgan Publicist
• Lynn Lunde Administrator/Tour Manager
• Chris Brookes Administrator/Tour Coordinator
• Steven Bush Assistant Tour Coordinator
• Ocean Art: Lynda Hendrickson Poster/Program Photographer & Designer

Description

The program for the 1975 show provided this description:
“Dying Hard is the story of people working in the St. Lawrence mines, eloquently told in their own words. Here, according to Elliot Leyton, “some one hundred miners are dead, and another hundred await an early death.”  
 
The reasons? Cancer – produced by radiation from a nearby uranium deposit. Silicosis – due to dust inhaled from drilling “dry” without ventilation, and related ailments including tuberculosis and chronic bronchitis.  
 
Dying Hard is about dying. But it is also very much about living, with dignity and strength in the face of extreme suffering. 
 
Dying Hard – a play whose words and music are those of the miners and their families.”

Exact dates and locations for the 1975 Dying Hard Provincial Tour was as follows:
Aug 18th and Sept 3rd: Long Harbour
Aug 20th and Aug 27th: Baie Verte
Aug 21st: Buchans
Aug 22nd: Parsons Pond
Aug 24th: Sally’s Cove
Aug 25th: Daniel’s Harbour
Aug 26th: Cow Head
Aug 30th: St. Lawrence
Sept 1st: Marystown
September 3rd-7th, and Sept 9th-14th: St. John’s

Production type

• Mummers Troupe Production