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War
by Dennis Foon
War is about four guys in high school, all trying in their ways to be men. But since none of them really have any idea what that means, or how you’re supposed to do it, they really screw up. They’re disconnected from themselves, and everyone around them because they’ve been taught, as part of “being a man,” to be aggressive and invulnerable. Language is used to reduce, disparage, and control others. In this play, Foon invents a slang for the characters to speak, to point at the way we use words as weapons.
“Dennis Foon, author of New Canadian Kid and Skin and Liars, gives us a violent jolt into the world of adolescence with his new play, War. Growing up to be a man is not easy in a society where brutality and aggression are a means of survival and dreams are held at knife-point. And Foon’s teens do have dreams. Their hopes are voiced in soliloquies that are often lyrical and powerful.”
—Jennifer Sullivan, CM Magazine
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