Originally commissioned and premiered by the Blyth Festival, Blyth, Ontario, Canada, in 1989, The Perils of Persephone shows what happens when a mysterious truck bearing the word “atomic” crashes into the swamp near the Currie family farm in rural Ontario of the late 1980s. The play gently satirizes the division between rural and urban living as the canny farm folk are pitted against suited government city dwellers bent on covering up this apparent nuclear mishap.
