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Seeds docudrama tours Lower Mainland

The Peak had an opportunity to chat with Annabel Soutar about her play Seeds. When she first heard about Percy Schmeiser’s legal battle against Monsanto in the Supreme Court of Canada, she was intrigued. It was 2003, and she travelled from Montreal to Ottawa to sit in on the court proceedings, being one of the only 58 people allowed to observe in the courtroom. Monsanto had won a federal court case and a subsequent appeal, and Soutar began to see the story as a potential documentary play, she explained. “It’s a fun concept to explore through theatre — a 70-year-old…

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