Bordertown CafeAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 12 June 2003
Description
In Bordertown Café, seventeen-year-old Jimmy faces the archetypal Canadian dilemma: stay home in Canada, with all its obvious flaws, or go south (young man) to the Land of Opportunity. Jimmys dad is the powerfully encoded Western hero of American popular myth - the cowboy as trucker, living his freedom and riding the roads of Wyoming. He offers Jimmy the prosperity of his new American home, a large modern house fully equipped with everything, including a capable new wife. In contrast, Jimmys mom, Marlene, is a failed wife and a weak, -tentative mother. The home she has made for herself and her son "on the Canadian side of nowhere" is provisional and shabby: half finished, ill equipped, badly decorated.
Jimmys conflict is writ large as the play dramatizes Canadas struggle to negotiate a unique identity in the shadow of its brash, superpower neighbour. Although global realities have shifted in the decades since the plays inception, its themes of personal and cultural identity endure.
Cast of 2 women and 2 men.
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