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Wreck by Kelley Jo Burke
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Wreck

A Very Anxious Memoir

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Narrator Kelley Jo Burke

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Length 4 hours 58 minutes
Language English
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Kelley Jo Burke embarks on a wild journey to understand many things, including the part where her grandfather sort of murdered her grandmother. Returning to a house filled with her first memories of childhood, she begins to explore the complex origins of her own anxiety. Along the way, she reflects on alienation and immigration, mental health and generational trauma, and the nature of memory itself. A memoir filled with raw honesty, comedy, tragedy and grace.

Kelley Jo Burke is an award-winning Regina playwright, creative nonfiction writer and documentarian, a professor of theatre and creative-writing, and was for many years host of CBC Radioโ€™s SoundXchange. The 2017 winner (with composer Jeffery Straker) of Playwright Guild of Canadaโ€™s national Best New Musical Award for Us, which premiered at the Globe Theatre 2018, and a new musical โ€œThe Curstโ€. Recent plays include โ€œThe Lucky Ones (Dancing Sky Theatre),โ€ The Selkie Wife (Scirocco) and Ducks on the Moon. Her published work includes four books, inclusion in four more collections, many periodicals, and her broadcasts include eight creative nonfiction documentaries for CBCโ€™s IDEAS. She was the 2009 winner of the Sask. Lieutenant-Governorโ€™s Award for Leadership in the Arts, the 2008 Saskatoon and Area Theatre Award for Playwriting, and has received the City of Regina Writing Award three times.

Kelley Jo Burke is an award-winning Regina playwright, creative nonfiction writer and documentarian, a professor of theatre and creative-writing, and was for many years host of CBC Radioโ€™s SoundXchange. The 2017 winner (with composer Jeffery Straker) of Playwright Guild of Canadaโ€™s national Best New Musical Award for Us, which premiered at the Globe Theatre 2018, and a new musical โ€œThe Curstโ€. Recent plays include โ€œThe Lucky Ones (Dancing Sky Theatre),โ€ The Selkie Wife (Scirocco) and Ducks on the Moon. Her published work includes four books, inclusion in four more collections, many periodicals, and her broadcasts include eight creative nonfiction documentaries for CBCโ€™s IDEAS. She was the 2009 winner of the Sask. Lieutenant-Governorโ€™s Award for Leadership in the Arts, the 2008 Saskatoon and Area Theatre Award for Playwriting, and has received the City of Regina Writing Award three times.

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