Rig: A Play commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of the Ocean Ranger disaster when, on February 15, 1982, the oil rig sank in the North Atlantic off the east coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, claiming the lives of all eighty-four men who were aboard the structure.
Playwright Joan Sullivan has produced a one-hour script by adapting Mike Heffernan's excellent two hundred-page book Rig: An Oral History of the Ocean Ranger Disaster, based on interviews with family members of rig workers, workers who were not aboard the Ocean Ranger the night it went down, and those connected with the rescue efforts and the aftermath of the tragic events thirty years ago (Heffernan's cousin was one of the workers).
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