It June 1981. Farmers face a debt crisis with interest rates as high as 20 percent. More than three hundred men are arrested after police sweeps of Toronto bathhouses, yet Pride Toronto launches its first gay-pride parade. Everything changing, including fifteen-year-old Esther, who escapes the family farm and runs away to the city. With the help of a brash young hustler and a gay activist who shelters street kids, she confronts her conservative-Christian parents?farmers on the brink of financial ruin?and begins to find her way home. Acclaimed playwright Leanna Brodie excels with this heartwarming coming-of-age, and coming-out, drama.The Book of Esther examines the seemingly irreconcilable positions of two groups: conservative rural Christians and militantly anti-religious urban queer activists. But Brodie doesn take sides. Instead, it like she picked up a rock to discover what scurrying around underneath, pointed it out to us, and said, ?Isn this interesting. Maybe we should all look at this for a while. Maybe we should talk about it, instead of just pretending that it isn there.?BR>Cast of 2 women and 3 men.
The Book of Esther
- 作者： Brodie, Leanna
- 出版社： Baker & Tayl
- 出版日期： 2012-05-29
- ISBN碼： 9780889226821
- 編號： 203c308346761
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