Toronto the good / Andrew Moodie.

xxviii, 120 p. ; 22 cm.

A play.

After a young white cop charges a black man with illegal firearm possession, accusations of racial profiling are levelled against the Toronto officer. When top Crown attorney Thomas Mathews, a victim of racial profiling himself, is assigned to prosecute the accused against a Left-leaning white attorney, tensions mount and personal politics bubble to the surface. Cutting deep into the lawyers’ private lives, their families and foibles are richly portrayed as an integral part of Toronto’s shifting mosaic. From an ostensibly routine traffic stop, each character must come to terms with the city’s racial politics and how they have shaped their own beliefs and prejudices.

Produced by Factory Theatre.

9780887549137 (pbk.)

D M817to 2010