Drawn from the playwright's experiences at residential school, the play explores the influence a favourite supervisor has on improving the boy's lives, and what happens when that supervisor is suddenly fired.
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2003, Weesageechak Begins to Dance Festival, Toronto
2018
Playwrights Canada Press
9781770919143
Included in Indian Acts: Residential School Plays, Donna-Michelle St. Bernard (editor).
Included in Indian Acts: Residential School Plays, Donna-Michelle St. Bernard (editor).
Realistic
Group of young, ambitious, editorial assistans in a NY Magazine office jockying for position and hoping to make it big as writers find their work derailed by a female co-worker who goes on a shooting rampage. Also deals with the aftermath on people. An indictment of the corporate culture and anything-to-get-ahead society. Lots of satirical, biting comedy
Stylized
The story is kept largely the same as Everyman with a few exceptions. Fellowship, Kindred, Goods, Discretion, Five Wits, and Knowledge are renamed Friendship, Kinship, Stuff, Mind, Five Senses, and Understanding respectively. The scene where Everyman must whip himself for Confession is changed to a scene where they are instructed by the drill seargant-esque Love to strip naked and shout about existential dread. Instead of Good Deeds following Everyman/Everybody to the grave, in this play that role is filled by Love. The story is also interspersed with pre-recorded voiceover scenes done fully in the dark, depicting four of Everybody's friends comforting them at their deathbed and through a misunderstanding eventually turns into a discussion on racism.
