Solo Show that follows the trials and tribulations of Simon Douglas, a young Indigenous man who moves from his rural reservation to the big city of Vancouver. This dark comedy examines the issues of race, identity, and assimilation that can drive young Aboriginal men to self-destruction.
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Solo Show with monologue potential
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2003, Native Earth Theatre, Toronto
2005
Playwrights Canada
9780887547720
Realistic
Tragicomedy about a Hispanic American family that lives in suburbia: their stories and memories. "A harrowing social satire charting the quest of a Latina mother and daughter to locate the American Dream in suburban Los Angeles, only to discover that the road is paved with crater-sized bumps--both from her own cultural heritage and from the specter of urban blight. There are no white picket fences surrounding this household." - backstage.com
Stylized
This play takes Harriet Beecher Stowe's abolitionist novel and spins it on its ear. Old stereotypes get to meet their creator, as Uncle Tom, Topsy and Eliza put Harriet Beecher Stowe on trial for not only perpetuating negative stereotypes but also for failing to "get their story right." In this play these same stereotypes reinvent themselves, while the story gets updated from their own Afrocentric perspective in such a way that it not only retains the story's original power, but also draws sharp parallels on matters of race between yesterday and today. If Uncle Tom's Cabin was the novel that helped start the Civil War, I Ain't Yo' Uncle reminds us that the war for equality in America still continues.
