Pat the Dog Theatre Creation proudly presents

Calling the Rock Home
by Karen Thistle

With Joe Drinkwalter, Joël Giroux, Matthew James
Directed by Emme Kay Kennedy

May 5-8, 2026  7:30PM
Bryston’s on the Park
5 Creighton Road
Copper Cliff, Ontario

A true story of our country’s 1960’s Eastern Exodus. Between 1956 and 1973 close to one million people left the Atlantic provinces. Mining and fishing were in decline and industrial development continued to lag behind the rest of Canada. Young people found themselves forced to choose between unemployment and exile. Ontario was the land of promise although it was a world away from the life they knew.

Calling the Rock Home is the story of three young Newfoundlanders’ making that choice. A heartwarming comedy about who we are, and what makes home. A New Canadian Play, written by the daughter of a Copper Cliff miner who made his choice.

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