Paper Wheat

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Paper Wheat is a play by the 25th Street Theatre Centre about the hard lives of early Saskatchewan settlers and the foundation of the wheat pools and the Co-op movement on the Canadian Prairies.{{cite web|url=http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=12914|title=Paper Wheat|work=Collection|publisher=National Film Board of Canada|access-date=10 April 2010}} The most successful stage show in Saskatchewan history, Paper Wheat opened in Sintaluta, Saskatchewan on May 18, 1977 and subsequently played to full houses across the province and nation.{{cite web|url=http://library2.usask.ca/90th/1970/1977.html|title=Documenting Saskatchewan|publisher=University of Saskatchewan|access-date=10 April 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070102000003/http://library2.usask.ca/90th/1970/1977.html|archive-date=2 January 2007|url-status=dead}}

Paper Wheat was an example of documentary theatre, with company members traveling to local communities to collect stories about Saskatchewan history.{{cite book|last=Kaye|first=Francis W.|title=Hiding the Audience|publisher=University of Alberta Press|date=March 2003 |pages=233|isbn=0-88864-376-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=242pbHoDi0IC&q=%22Paper+Wheat%22&pg=PA227}} It was collectively created and written by its originating cast and crew, including director Andras Tahn and actors Linda Griffiths and Lubomir Mykytiuk.Gaetan Charlebois, [https://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Paper%20Wheat "Paper Wheat"]. Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia, June 15, 2021. Later productions, under the direction of Guy Sprung, added further new characters and dialogue created by the same collective process.