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Scraping the Surface: Three Plays by Lyle Victor Albert

Scraping the Surface: Three Plays by Lyle Victor Albert
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Author: Lyle Victor Albert
Publisher: NeWest Press
Format: Softcover
# of Pages: 78
Pub. Date: 2000
ISBN-10: 1896300332
ISBN-13: 9781896300337
Cast Size: 1 male

About the Plays:

Scraping the Surface is an autobiographical one-man show, written and performed as a monologue by Canadian playwright/performer Lyle Victor Albert — "Vic." Vic shares his experiences as a teenager with cerebral palsy.

For Vic, the seemingly simple act of shaving becomes a turning point in accepting his cerebral palsy and pushing himself and his physical abilities. The challenge of shaving propels Vic to explore growing pains common to teenagers: parents, high school, and decisions about life after high school.

"To shave… or not to shave…" Doesn't seem like a life-altering dilemma. But for Vic, "shaving isn't just a function of good personal grooming… it's an adventure." Because Vic is no ordinary guy… Vic is "jumpy." With great skill and good humor, Scraping the Surface leads us into the world of a young man with cerebral palsy as he wrestles with the age old problem of "what to do with the rest of my life." This is hilarious personal account of the challenges and victories that are part and parcel of the process of stepping into adulthood and discovering both who we are and who we would like to be.

The volume Scraping the Surface contains three plays: Cut, Scraping the Surface and Objects in Mirror.

Scraping the Surface was the winner of Edmonton's Sterling Award for Outstanding New Play. After adapting Scraping the Surface for young audiences, the show was awarded Vancouver's Jessie Award for Outstanding Script and Performance for a High School Audience. Vic was also nominated for Toronto's Chalmers award for Best New Play for Young Audiences.

In Objects in the Mirror, "Vic" sets off on a perilous 1000 mile journey through the Rocky Mountains with all his belongings crammed in the back of his 1986 Honda Civic. Searching for new life in Vancouver B.C., Vic may not know where he's going, but he sure knows what he has left behind.

In Cut, characters who have been cut from the final version of well-known plays meet in a celestial waiting-room.

Cast: 1 male

What people say:

"This is excellent theatre, full of gentle humour and human warmth. Vic's disability is held in fine balance within the script, neither overly stressed or ignored. Though it comes into focus as he talks about significant milestones, his story is really about the challenges we all face in figuring out what to do with our lives, and how to navigate our rites of passage. Even that awkward male duty, shaving, which Albert inevitably returns to at the end of an entertaining one-man show." — The Age, Melbourne, Australia

"It doesn't seem to matter what subject Lyle Victor Albert puts his to, the result is the same — a funny, insightful story that everyone can identify with." — The Star Phoenix, Saskatoon

"Lyle Victor Albert is one of the gutsiest writer-performers I've ever encountered." — The Calgary Herald

"Lyle Victor Albert has a sharp comic mind...." — The Irish Times

About the Playwright:

Lyle Victor Albert is an established playwright and performer who lives with cerebral palsy. He is the youngest of eight children and was brought up on a farm just outside Bonnyville, Alberta. Growing up in a large family gave him the sense of humour that serves him so well as a writer and an actor. His plays have been produced across Canada and the US as well as Europe and Australia.