A dense play with complicated threads: a young woman’s sense of identity is buried under the scar tissue of the residential school system. A chance encounter with a photograph exposes the legacy that binds her to her family and its ghosts.
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2008, Native Earth, Toronto
2018
Playwrights Canada Press
978-1-77091-914-3
Included in Indian Acts: Residential School Plays, edited by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard (said book won the Patrick O'Neill Award in 2019)
Included in Indian Acts: Residential School Plays, edited by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard (said book won the Patrick O'Neill Award in 2019)
Historical
Northern Iraq: August of 2015. It is one year since ISIS massacred the Yazidi people in Sinjar and began sex-trafficking Yazidi women. The Unbelievers follows Sanaa, a Yazidi woman and Orli, a conflict journalist, after their capture by ISIS. Two women are alone on opposite sides of a crisis; together they must find a way to endure.
TYA (14-18 recommended)
Estranged teenage cousins Eli and Kat have recently met online and bonded over their queer identities, but they have a limited understanding of each other’s very different realities. In Italy, soft-spoken Eli is trying to find a way to come out as trans to his conservative Roman Catholic family. In Canada, strong-headed Kat is desperate for connection to a culture and place she’s never known. Kat and her friend Hannah are the only ones who know that Eli is trans—not even his brother Matteo knows. And while her intentions are good, Kat’s decision to crowdfund a flight for Eli to attend Toronto Pride unknowingly outs him to the public, setting off a chain of events that leave the cousins and their loved ones reeling.
