Stylized
Rice Boy
Tommy, a 12 year old first-generation Canadian of Indian descent, struggles with his identity. The story focuses on 3 generations of men in the same family (Tommy, his father & uncle and his grandfather) all of whom have lost the women they love and are learning to cope with their devastations. Tommy’s father and grandfather each struggle to cope with the loss of their wife; as Tommy’s uncle is trying to deal with the reality that the women in his life are leaving him--- his daughter getting married and his wife leaving him for another man; while Tommy has to say goodbye to his cousin who is getting married. The play moves back and forth between Tommy’s summer visit to Kochi (South India) and 1975 Christmas in Canada.
