You Should Have Stayed Home (2013)
Produced by
Praxis Theatre and The Original Norwegian
Playwright: Tommy Taylor
Director: Michael Wheeler
Venue
Run
October 17th, 2013 – October 26th, 2013
Awards & Nominations
RBC Arts Professional Award – SummerWorks, 2011
Synopsis
You Should Have Stayed Home (aka#G20Romp) is a play about Tommy Taylor’s experience over 48 hours at the 2010 G20 weekend in Toronto. While trying to return home from his first ever protest as a law-abiding citizen at the “Free Speech Zone” at Queen’s Park, Taylor was swept up in a mass arrest, caged with 40 other people in a ten foot by twenty foot cage and denied drinking water until he passed out from dehydration.
The play is an adaptation of Tommy’s Facebook note, How I Got Arrested and Abused at G20 in Toronto. The note went viral and has been translated into seven languages and appeared in twenty-one countries – a detailed, frightening and often funny account of the largest mass arrest in Canadian history. Tommy’s story has been covered by national and international media, including a Gemini-nominated CBC documentary named after the production. (praxistheatre.com)
Cast
| Tommy Taylor | Performer |
Creative Team
| Tommy Taylor | Playwright |
| Michael Wheeler | Director |
| Thomas Ryder Payne | Sound Designer |
| Scott Penner | Set Designer |
| Kimberly Purtell | Lighting Designer |
| Julian DeZotti | Dramaturg (SummerWorks 2011) |
| Jody Hewston | Projection Illustrator |
Production
| Aislinn Rose | Producer |
| Rebecca Vandevelde | Stage Manager |
| Scott Dermody | Participant Coordinator |
| Scott Dermody | Assistant Producer |
