In February 1969, hundreds of students occupied a computer centre at what is now Montréal’s Concordia University to protest the mismanagement of a racism complaint lodged by Caribbean students against their biology professor. When an agreement to end the occupation fell through, riot police were called in, resulting in widespread damage, a mysterious fire, and nearly a hundred arrests.
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2019, Concordia Theatre (formerly D.B. Clarke Theatre), Montreal
2023
Playwrights Canada Press
9780369104168
Stylized
Two actors, one male, one female illuminate the inner life of a trans woman from her Scottish childhood in the 1960s to the present day. Dragonfly is about how we construct and perceive gender, and how that can hide a person’s true identity not just from those around them, but even from themselves. Emerging from that; matching our inside to our outside is always hard, but for trans people it’s often a matter of life and death.
TYA
A new year of high school is full of excitement and potential—but three teens didn’t expect it to bring such a dark change to their lives. After spending a summer reinventing herself in Paris, Emma is ready for her new life to start, while her best friend Lily is eager for them to reconnect. Lily throws a last-minute party fuelled by alcohol and Instagram, which leads to a long-awaited encounter between Emma and Lily’s older brother Chris. But the next day Emma feels that something went terribly wrong. When a doctor’s appointment and a visit from police confirm that there was a sexual assault at the party, and the whole school turns against Emma, the three friends grapple with what actually happened between Emma and Chris.
