Is My Microphone On?

by Jordan Tannahill

Overview

• First produced in Canada by Canadian Stage, Toronto, in September 2021.
• First produced by Theater der Welt, Dusseldorf, in June 2021.
• The title of the play is a striking quote from Greta Thunberg’s speech to the UK’s parliament in April 2019.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780369103741
Publisher:	Playwrights Union of Canada
Publication date:	09/13/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	250
File size:	835 KB
Age Range:	11 - 18 Years

About the Author

Jordan Tannahill is a playwright, author, and director of film and theatre. Jordan’s plays have been translated into nine languages and twice honoured with a Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama: in 2014 for Age of Minority: Three Solo Plays and in 2018 for Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom. His first novel, Liminal, won France’s Prix des jeunes libraires, and his second novel, The Listeners, was a finalist for the 2021 Giller Prize. In 2019, CBC Arts named Tannahill as one of sixty-nine LGBTQ Canadians, living or deceased, who have shaped the country’s history.

Read an Excerpt

One day

I will not think you know everything

Or even as much as me

Or maybe much at all

I will be disappointed

In you

In myself

For trusting you

I will have to change my thinking

Realise I am the adult

I am the one taking care of you

I don’t hate you because you’re weak

Or because you’re scared

Or because you’re wrong

I told my Dad: I know you’re older than me in this life, I grant you that.

But who knows how long it’s taken our souls to get here?

There was one life I lived where I was a dog. I was owned by a family and they were very good to me.

And there was another life, when I was a car. And this man drove around inside of me, just going to different appointments and stuff. And then he got rid of me, and I was in a junkyard for years. Just years and years sitting there, underneath all of these other crushed cars, because even though they crushed me into a cube, my soul was still stuck inside.

And then in another life I was like a… a small bubble of foam on a wave coming to shore, and the wave broke, and I burst, and that was it, it was very quick

But before that I was a small stream, for centuries

And in another life I was a mortal girl

Which is this life

And in this life, I finally have the power to speak

After thousands of years

I have a mouth

I have words

So if you don’t mind

Mom

Dad

I’m going to speak

I’m going to shout

When I become a human

I’m going use some words

Editorial Reviews

An urgent call to action… Now, more than ever, we need to listen.” —NOW Magazine

“Unnerving… Disarming.” —The Globe and Mail

“It’s terrific theatre. Invigorating, challenging, entertaining… This is what political theatre should be.” —Mooney on Theatre

From the Publisher