An Idea
"Sugar! Jean Devanny, Sugar Heaven and the 1935 Can Cutter's Strikes"
Tell the story of the strikes, Devanny's interest in them and the book - dipping into "reportage", but mostly telling the story of the people who worked and lived in the area, how they inspired the novel, what Devanny hoped to do with the book and how the book has been recieved over the years.
Put together a more or less honest-to-goodness documentary with filmed interviews. On stage, those interviews would be projected onto a number of screens, and framed by a performer reading excerpts from the book.
Recording the readings, the whole thing could be cut together as a DVD...
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