Leon Aureus is an actor, writer, producer, short filmmaker and a founding Artistic Director of Fu-GEN, an Asian-Canadian Theatre Company. Aureus was born in Quezon City, Philippines but raised in Toronto and Mississaugua, Ontario. He now lives in Toronto.
Drama
Banana Boys: The Play
Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2007.
Adapted from the novel by Terry Woo.
PS8601 .U78 B35 2007
Publisher’s Synopsis (from its website)
Banana Boys: The Play is a smart, contemporary and wickedly funny play about five young Asian-Canadian men wrestling with issues of race, identity and the death of a friend. It is one story, fragmented into five and reconstructed throughout the course of their lives. Adapted from the novel by Terry Woo, Banana Boys is a “meditation for the restless” and a call to anyone who has felt out of place in the world.
Also:
“Banana Boys.” In Love + Relasianships: A Collection of Contemporary Asian-Canadian Drama. Volume 2, ed. Nina Lee Aquino. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2009, 197-274.
PS8309 .A75 L68 2009
Links
Leon Aureus personal website
Fu-GEN website
Publisher Playwrights Canada Press
Production poster for “People Power” co-written by Aureus, produced by the Carlos Bulosan Theatre Company