And he’s too hung up about his physical appearance for a sex worker. He’s made it clear to me that he would like me to help him out - and not his mother, because he’s ashamed in front of her. When I bathe him, he’s often getting erections. Basically a father had written to Tom Harper and said “I have a very severely disabled son, he’s in adolescence. I read an ethics column in the Star many years ago.
Why did you choose to tackle this subject? This is really under-explored on every level in our society. If you’re going to write a play, which generally doesn’t pay very well up front, then write something you care about, otherwise it’s not going to be worth it. There’s this kind of rampant ignorance about the lives of the disabled - that I had shared in, for many years, because I hadn’t had any experience. Our society is so horrified by sex already, so to think of disabled people having sex really blows some people’s minds. I realized how frightened people are of that. And people do have sexual feelings regardless of what’s going on. When I started playing around with the language, I started reflecting on his life, and the issues, and being an adolescent. The play deals with disability as well as sexuality, which may come as a surprise for some, that those two things can co-exist. I thought, ‘How would I theatricalize this?’ Would I just write the lines, or try to re-create his language, and get people to understand it? It’s kind of like English, but kind of like something else as well. He could communicate with great nuance, and very clearly, once you got to know what he was saying. Through getting to know him, and dealing with him - and being a playwright - the way that we grew to understand that language was really fascinating to me. He speaks another language, based on how he hears things and sees the world. And he’s severely disabled, physically and mentally - he probably functions at a 7-year-old level. What inspired you to write Kill Me Now? My nephew has XXY syndrome, which is sometimes calls Klinefelter’s. I sat down with Brad Fraser in Toronto earlier this month, before he flew to Edmonton to start rehearsal. Article contentįraser says the play has a major plot twist - one he wouldn’t dare give away - that will have audiences talking long after the curtain comes down.
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