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The Clinton Special: A Film About the Farm Show

DirectorMichael Ondaatje

7.0 / 10
1974
71 min

Michael Ondaatje chronicles a group of actors who, in 1972, went into an Ontario farming community to build a play of what they saw and learned. This famous experimental collaborative 'grassroots' play by Paul Thompson and Theatre Passe Muraille brought to that community a sense of awe, delight, and reflection of their own language and culture.

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