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Age of Minority: Three Solo Plays
Age of Minority: Three Solo Plays
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Author: Jordan Tannahill Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press Format: Softcover # of Pages: 160 Pub. Date: 2013 ISBN-10: 1770911944 ISBN-13: 9781770911949
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About the Play:
Winner of the 2014 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama
(Canadian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize)
The collection
Age of Minority
contains three solo plays by
Jordan Tannahill. Together these fresh
and riveting solo plays explore the lives of three gay youth
and their resilience in the face of violence and intolerance.
Get Yourself Home Skyler James
is based
on a true story about a private who leaves the US army and heads to Canada after being outed as a lesbian. After
Private Skyler James was found-out as a lesbian her life became a
living hell at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. But when she began fearing
for her life she knew she had to escape. In the middle of the night
she loaded all of her belongings into a white pickup and just started
driving north. Follows
the harrowing journey of a young lesbian who defects from the army
when she is outed by fellow soldiers. First
produced in 2009 by Roseneath Theatre as a touring classroom play at
high schools within the
Greater Toronto Area. (Cast:
1 female)
Peter Fechter:
59 Mintues chronicles the last
hour in the life of Peter Fechter, an
adolescent from
East Berlin shot while attempting to cross the Berlin Wall in 1962
with his companion. From
where Peter lies in the Death Strip, he can hear the lives family,
friends, and strangers unfolding in the city around him – dozens of
converging narratives culminating in the moment of his death and
illuminating his decision to risk it all for love. First produced in
2011 by
Suburban Beast at Canadian
Stage's Festival of Ideas and Creation in Toronto, then in 2013
at the WYE experimental Art
& Tech space in Berlin, Germany. (Cast:
1 male)
rihannaboi95
centres on a Toronto teen whose world comes crashing in when videos of him dancing to songs by his favourite pop heroine go viral.
Sunny, aka rihannaboi95,
a high school boy made some videos replicating Rihanna's music videos and shared them online. And while, yeah, they're getting him lots of hits, not everyone likes them. Some people at school found them too and now the eggshell world he so
carefully treads is threatening to implode. Cloistered within the
bedroom of his friend Keira – a drugstore makeup counter clerk – Sunny goes live with what might be his final
video for his loyal followers, summoning the spirit of his Rihanna
persona when he needs her most. First performed in 2013 in an inner
suburban Toronto bedroom and live-streamed to audiences' computers
around the world. Winner of the 2013 Dora Award for Best New Play, Theatre for Young Audiences Division. (Cast: 1 male)
What people say:
"...one of Canada's
most promising young independent theatre artists." —
Toronto Star
"...the poster child of a new
generation of (theatre? film? dance?) artists for whom 'interdisciplinary' is not a buzzword, but a way of life."
— The Globe and Mail
"...Tannahill is a Renaissance
man who'll be amazing audiences for decades to come." —
NOW Magazine
About the Playwright:
Jordan
Tannahill is a Canadian playwright and filmmaker. His work has
been presented in theatres, festivals, and galleries across Canada
and internationally, translated into multiple languages, and honoured
with various prizes, including two Governor General's Literary Awards
(Canadian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize).
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