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Chile Con Carne
An uncompromising look at a Chilean refugee family seen through the eyes of an eight-year-old girl, Manuelita.
The Lady in the Red Dress
A white middle aged lawyer working on compensation for the Chinese Head tax is forced to confront his culpability. The play moves back and forth between between 1923 and 2006
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Production and Publication
First produced
2009, Young Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto
Publication year
2010
Published by
Playwrights Canada
ISBN
9780887259076
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Anywhere but Here
The play follows a family on a journey back towards Chile from Canada on the I-5 freeway in Washington state in 1979, and on the U.S./Mexico border in 1979, 1973, 1996, and 2020. Using magic realism, these eras occur simultaneously. They drive in a convertible along the desert border between the US and Mexico, each with different emotions about the North they are leaving and the South they are approaching, reversing their refugee flight, refusing the state of exile. The father and his two young daughters encounter an increasingly fantastic range of characters. They are encircled by past, present and future, in a collective vision that takes them, and the audience, into the compelling experiences of people crossing and guarding the border. Threaded through the external journey is the internal search for home in an unstable world, confronting the costs of exile and the true nature of home.