Colleen Murphy
Auteur van The December Man
Werken van Colleen Murphy
I Love You That Much (Lee) 1 exemplaar
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The story is about a fictional student, a man who was in the room with mass murderer Marc Lépine and survived. Before he opened fire on them, Lepine freed the male students in the class.
She tells the story backwards, beginning where her main character, Jean, ends up 15 years later. Jean (Rylan Wilkie) is a shy boy from a working class family. His mother Kathleen (Nancy Beatty) cleans houses for wealthy families and his father Benoit (Brian Dooley) is a factory worker.
In the first scene Benoit and Kathleen are committing suicide. Each subsequent scene moves closer to that fateful day when Jean escapes the massacre and to the climax of the play. Jean and his parents are understandably elated he has been spared but the audience can’t share in their happiness because we already know this moment of joy will turn to unbearable grief.
Her play, The December Man, won the 2007 Governor General's Literary Award for drama. looks at the story of a fictional student, a man who was in the room with mass murderer Marc Lépine and survived.… (meer)