John Hartman, David Macfarlane Above Hamilton, 2014, oil on linen, 60 x 66 inches.
Courtesy, Nicholas Metivier Gallery
From one of Canada’s most celebrated writers
and the author of the classic memoir The Danger Tree comes an occasionally hilarious, sometimes heart-breaking meditation on love, memory, and the fathomless depths of grief.
A powerful work of literature,
theatre and music that brings David Macfarlane’s novel The Danger Tree to the stage in a collaboration of song and spoken word. Together, David Macfarlane and Douglas Cameron tell the story of a Newfoundland family and the war that changed it forever.
Emulating the circuitous tales
told by his mother's relatives, the Goodyears of Newfoundland, David Macfarlane weaves the major events of the island's twentieth century--the ravages of tuberculosis; the great seal-hunt disaster; the bitter Confederation debate, and above all, the First World War--into his own tale of the ill-starred fortunes of his family. He brings to life a multi-generational cast of characters who are as colourful as only Newfoundlanders can be. With humour, insight, and genuine love for those heroes and charlatans, pirates and dreamers, he explores the meaning of family and the consequences of forgotten history.