Nelly Boy

By Dave Deveau

Nelly Boy explores what it means not to fit in and challenges one of the givens of humanity: gender. Though biologically a boy, Nelly is hardly male, nor female. A tumultuous teen in a family who can’t understand gender difference, Nelly takes the audience through a haunting tale of suburban life. An interrogator, in turn, attempts to put the pieces together in order to discover how Nelly was found running naked along a highway. This is a story about a person struggling to find space to exist between the black and white of the world. -- Artist website.

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Production and Publication

First produced

2007, SummerWorks Festival, Toronto

Publication year

2020

Published by

Talon Books

ISBN

9781772012521

included in Cissy, Three Gender Plays; Artist website: https://www.davedeveau.com/past-work/nelly-boy

included in Cissy, Three Gender Plays; Artist website: https://www.davedeveau.com/past-work/nelly-boy

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