Legoland - by Jacob Richmond (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Siblings embark on a wild road trip in this vaudeville-inspired one-act play. Cast of 1 woman and 1 man.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Penny and Ezra Lamb are home-schooled by their parents on a hippie colony near Uranium City until the police discover it also happens to be the largest marijuana grow-op in Saskatchewan. "Legoland" is how their pot-smoking elders always described the outside world, and the Lamb siblings are dying to get there. <p/>Once the commune is busted and their parents are sent to prison, sixteen-year-old Penny and her younger brother Ezra, each seething cauldrons of repression, are enrolled in a Catholic private school, where they are instant social outcasts. Penny, ostracized for being a weird "lesbo" (she's not gay), is vulnerably but brilliantly depressive until a classmate gives her a copy of boy band Seven Up's CD and she becomes obsessed with singer Johnny Moon. The self-absorbed Ezra, fixated on German nihilism, plays with his Jeffrey Dahmer puppet, wears white stockings and pops a mind-altering combination of Ritalin and Dexedrine to combat his ADHD. <p/>When Seven Up breaks up, Johnny Moon remakes himself as a misogynistic gangsta rapper. Penny, heartbroken but determined to save him and bring back the "real" Johnny Moon, persuades Ezra to accompany her on a pilgrimage down to Orlando to confront her idol. The Lamb siblings run away from school on a bus tour of the Wal-Marts and McDonald's of the continent, financing their trip by selling the Paxil and Ritalin they've been prescribed. <p/>Arrested and deported for assault after their hilarious encounter with her pop icon, Penny has been ordered to give public service speeches to atone for attacking a celebrity. Dressed in a private school uniform and under the supervision of her social worker in order to avoid doing community service, Penny delivers her hyperactive sermon on juvenile delinquency, including a description of sex as "the Devil's Pilates," punctuated with the scattergun codas of her deadpan brother.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Legoland is like a variety show version of South Park.<br>-- <em>Globe & Mail</em><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Jacob Richmond</b><br>Jacob Richmond studied acting and playwriting at Concordia University in Montreal and at the University of Victoria. His plays include <i>The Qualities of Zero</i>, <i>Small Returns</i> and <i>Legoland</i>. <i>Legoland</i> has won numerous awards across Canada, including: The Contra Guys Award for Best New Play at Toronto's SummerWorks Festival; Pick of the Fringe at the Vancouver Fringe Festival; Critic's Choice Award for Best Fringe Production in Victoria; and Festival Favorite Award at the New York Frigid Festival. Richmond received the Montreal English Critic's Circle Award and was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award.
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