Bolsheviki by David Fennario
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Bolsheviki is a dramatic monologue set in a hotel bar in Montréal on Remembrance Day. WW1 veteran Harry ’Rosie’ Rollins tells young reporter Jerry Nines about his experience in the trenches. Rollins tells Nines about men pissing their pants, losing limbs and planning revolt against their officers. The account is light years away from the maudlin sentimentalism of ‘nation building’ which often characterizes conventional histories that deal with the experience of Canadian troops in WW1. Jerry Nines links the struggle to stop the First World War with the ongoing struggle to get Canadian troops out of Afghanistan.
“The tapes on?..you got the tape running?..ok…whats my name?...already told ya what my name is…you want me to say on the tape what my name is…Rosie,that’s they called me, Rosie Rollins, Harry to you, but its Rosie whenever I meet any of my old army pals which is not too often cause I never go to the Legion or any of those things, cause, I can’t be bothered listening to all those old farts talk about things they don’t really remember any more, or think they do remember but they’re not really remembering, they’re just repeating the bullshit they keep hearing about what they want us to think we remember...or is that too goddamn complicated for ya?...I mean we can just stop right now and just sit and just drink?...ya wanna go on?...ya wanna hear this?” –Rosie Rollins
Visit the official Bolsheviki website and learn more about the Action Infini Program!
Bolsheviki is a dramatic monologue set in a hotel bar in Montréal on Remembrance Day. WW1 veteran Harry ’Rosie’ Rollins tells young reporter Jerry Nines about his experience in the trenches. Rollins tells Nines about men pissing their pants, losing limbs and planning revolt against their officers. The account is light years away from the maudlin sentimentalism of ‘nation building’ which often characterizes conventional histories that deal with the experience of Canadian troops in WW1. Jerry Nines links the struggle to stop the First World War with the ongoing struggle to get Canadian troops out of Afghanistan.
“The tapes on?..you got the tape running?..ok…whats my name?...already told ya what my name is…you want me to say on the tape what my name is…Rosie,that’s they called me, Rosie Rollins, Harry to you, but its Rosie whenever I meet any of my old army pals which is not too often cause I never go to the Legion or any of those things, cause, I can’t be bothered listening to all those old farts talk about things they don’t really remember any more, or think they do remember but they’re not really remembering, they’re just repeating the bullshit they keep hearing about what they want us to think we remember...or is that too goddamn complicated for ya?...I mean we can just stop right now and just sit and just drink?...ya wanna go on?...ya wanna hear this?” –Rosie Rollins
Visit the official Bolsheviki website and learn more about the Action Infini Program!
Run Time: approx. 70 minutes. There is no intermission.
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