Zero Tolerance and Other Plays:
(2013)
In May 2007, 15-year old Jordan Manners was shot and killed in the hallway of his Toronto school. One month later, an investigation resulted in a 595-page report entitled ‘The Road to Health’. A few months later, in an attempt to provoke discussion about the report among teachers in Toronto, I adapted the report into a dramatic script called Zero Tolerance. The play was performed for the first time in September 2008 for 500 new teachers at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education’s annual Safe Schools Conference.
Zero Tolerance along with two other play scripts, Lost Daughter and Ana’s Shadow, is available as an anthology. The plays take up themes of racism, xenophobia and homophobia and experienced by racialized and marginalized families in North America.
