Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers, livre ebook

• Premiered in April 2019 at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto in a production by b current performing arts with Alberta Theatre Projects and Banff Playwrights Lab.
• The play is inspired by the life of Trayvon Martin and his murder.

The last inhale.

A seventeen-year-old Black boy in a hoodie appears. His body parts isolate, moving in a way that is unfamiliar.

Slimm: What just happened?

He considers his own body. He tries to control his limbs.

I’m hot. I’m wet?

He observes the space. He sees eyes watching him.

God!?

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures.
He leads me beside still waters.
He restores my soul.
He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
Even though I walk through the valley
of the shadow of death,
I fear no evil,
For you are with me.

He remembers to do the sign of the cross.

(to the eyes) I haven’t been to church in a minute. I just thought I’d slip in a little insurance.

Are y’all here for Judgment Day?

Is God on Black people time?

There should be like a step-by-step instruction manual.

A large book appears.

The boy approaches the book.

(reading) “Your Journey to the Ancestors.”

The book glows and inscribes itself.

“A Step-by-Step Instruction Manual.”

“Open me.”