Realistic
Kilt Pins
In a Catholic High School in Scarborough amidst low-income housing, difficult race relations, and poverty, a teenager struggles to find her sexual identity.
A Song for Tomorrow
May stands with a suitcase. She looks at a photo of her husband. It’s the first time she’s going to meet him. It’s also the moment she decides to leave him forever. A Song for Tomorrow is an elegy to change, choice, and sacrifice. (Summerworks 2012 Festival Program)
About Playwright(s)
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Both of the characters are meant to be Cantonese and spek in a Chinese accent.
Production and Publication
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2012, Bob Nasmith Innovation Backspace (during The SummerWorks Performance Festival), Toronto
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link to play: https://www.mtls.ca/issue8/writings-drama-wong.php
link to play: https://www.mtls.ca/issue8/writings-drama-wong.php
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