, legendary Canadian actor-playwright Walter Borden’s solo show, opening the new Tarragon Theatre season. Borden, in the role of the mythical Sphinx, describes the human journey in terms of self-expression.
The play is described as semi-autobiographical and some of it clearly draws on Borden’s own life, including his boyhood in New Glasgow and – more obliquely – his involvement in the 1960s civil rights movement. At other times he embodies people he has encountered in the past, from a fire-and-brimstone preacher to a feather boa-bedecked drag queen. Throughout, he deals with the experiences of being queer and Black.
Other characters encountered in his journey include a sharp-tongued sex worker who turns out to be a poor single mother, gone into the trade after being denied welfare. Then there’s the desperate male hustler, turning tricks in return for food and shelter on the freezing winter streets of Montreal. Despite all those words, there’s also something lacking, as we begin to lose the context for Borden’s stories. At one point he uses a patchwork quilt as a life metaphor, saying the stitching is the most important part, making a pattern of all those disparate patches. The play itself could use some of that stitching.
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