
Realistic
Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet
Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet explores a young man’s relationship with his history and friends as he discovers his sexuality and true self against the backdrop of an impending storm.

Comedy about Indigenous identity politics. In Act One, 6 Indigenous stereotypes including Tonto, Injun Joe and Pocahontas find themselves trapped in a room with a dead white writer. None of them can figure out how he died or which one of them killed him. As they accuse one another, they discover how unhappy they are with the versions of their lives constructed over the past 400 years. In Act Two, they are transformed into modern Indigenous people attending an AA Meeting once again with a dead white man in their midst
contains monologues
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2010, Magnus Theatre, Thunder Bay
2011
Talonbooks
9780889226630
NOTE FROM READER: Strong comic roles and nice interweaving of the genres of murder mystery and theatre of the absurd
NOTE FROM READER: Strong comic roles and nice interweaving of the genres of murder mystery and theatre of the absurd

Realistic
Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet explores a young man’s relationship with his history and friends as he discovers his sexuality and true self against the backdrop of an impending storm.

Realistic
Pharus wants nothing more than to take his rightful place as leader of the school’s legendary gospel choir. Can he find his way inside the hallowed halls of this institution if he sings in his own key? An affecting and honest portrait of a gay youth tentatively beginning to find the courage to let the truth about himself become known.