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Martin McGuire's
Poor Tom

  November 8-18
  Directed by Patrick Sutton

  By day, village women manufacture the very gunpowder that will kill their fathers,
  sons and husbands in war. At night, nothing they can do washes every bit of
  saltpeter, sulphur and guilt from their hands. Poor Tom refuses to fight.
  Instead, his duty is to stay behind and try to force the women to see what they
  are doing, and to plead with them to live a life with purpose and a sense of the
  future. But in a society that is morally blind, will Tom's words fall on deaf ears?

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