Bordertown Café (ePub)
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In Bordertown Café, seventeen-year-old Jimmy faces the archetypal Canadian dilemma: stay home in Canada, with all its obvious flaws, or go south (young man) to the Land of Opportunity. Jimmy's dad is the powerfully encoded Western hero of American popular myth - the cowboy as trucker, living his freedom and riding the roads of Wyoming. He offers Jimmy the prosperity of his new American home, a large modern house fully equipped with everything, including a capable new wife. In contrast, Jimmy's mom, Marlene, is a failed wife and a weak, tentative mother. The home she has made for herself and her son "on the Canadian side of nowhere" is provisional and shabby: half finished, ill equipped, badly decorated.
Jimmy's conflict is writ large as the play dramatizes Canada's struggle to negotiate a unique identity in the shadow of its brash, superpower neighbour. Although global realities have shifted in the decades since the play's inception, its themes of personal and cultural identity endure.
Cast of 2 women and 2 men.
Some of Rebar's other plays include Cornflower Blue (Memories from a Prairie Childhood), which like Bordertown Café was commissioned by the Blyth Theatre Festival and toured throughout Ontario and Manitoba. First Snowfall was written when Rebar was playwright in residence at Alberta Theatre Projects and was produced by Theatre Network. Checkin' Out, a comedy-drama about a small town check out girl, was commissioned by Northern Lights Theatre in 1981 and produced by them before going on to productions in Ottawa, Vancouver, Thunder Bay and at the Prairie Theatre Exchange in Winnipeg, where it remains their most successful production to date. After spending time in Washington, DC, Rebar became playwright in residence for Prairie Theatre Exchange and wrote a play for them, All Over the Map, which they toured throughout Manitoba and parts of Ontario. It was then produced by Chinook Theatre in Edmonton. Rebar's first play, Chatter, was produced when she was just 17, at Calgary's Factory Theatre West. That same year she was part of the first Playwright's Colony at the Banff Centre.
Rebar also writes for television and film and has several screenwriting and story editing credits to her name. She has written for the NFB, the CBC, Atlantis Films, Sullivan Entertainment, Shaftesbury
Rebar makes her home in Nelson, BC.
- Autor: Kelly Rebar
- 2015, 128 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Talon Books
- ISBN-10: 0889229376
- ISBN-13: 9780889229372
- Erscheinungsdatum: 25.02.2015
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- Grösse: 1.48 MB
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