Toronto, Mississippi - MacLeod, Joan

As New; Jhana, is a beautiful 18-year-old who lives with her mother Maddie and their boarder Bill, a sometime poet. Jhana's father, King, shows up and it is his presence for the first time in a long time in this unusual family that really galvanizes all four of the characters into action. King is an Elvis impersonator, getting sick and tired of doing the same old song and dance. Jhana is mentally handicapped and working at her first "job" in a workshop for disabled people where she puts four screws in a bag and then another four screws in another bag and so on. In her mind she is on stage at Maple Leaf Gardens singing and strutting her stuff, just like her father does. Maddie is trying to keep it together while working full time as a teacher and as a mother, too busy to admit to her own loneliness. Bill is harbouring all sorts of feelings for Maddie that he is afraid to act on.While this is a play about the power of family and love, it is finally a play about self-destruction and creation.
As New
Soft cover
Talonbooks
2008
Vancouver, BC