Suitcase considers the lives of refugees and the spaces they inhabit. The play urges the audience to reassess the significance of their possessions, the relationships they value, and all of the things they have left behind.
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2019, Theatre Mada, Kitchener, Ont
2020
Scirocco Drama
9781927922644
Included in Suitcase/Adrenaline, Scirocco Drama.
Included in Suitcase/Adrenaline, Scirocco Drama.
Realistic
Joanne and Tate received news that their mother had a stroke and is hospitalized. Upon arriving to the hospital room they discover a German woman, who barely speaks any English, claiming to be their mother's sister. Tensions escalate between the siblings as the German woman and her son reveal the reason they're here and make a shocking claim about their grandfather during WWII.
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.
