Body So Fluorescent
- Publisher
- Playwrights Canada Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2023
- Subjects
- Women Authors, Canadian, Gay & Lesbian
- Categories
- LGBTQ2S characters
Short alternative textual descriptions
Landmark navigation
WCAG level AA
Single logical reading order
WCAG v2.0
All textual content can be modified
Print-equivalent page numbering
ARIA roles provided
Table of contents navigation
Compliance web page for detailed accessibility information:
http://www.idpf.org/epub/a11y/accessibility-20170105.html#wcag-aa
No reading system accessibility options actively disabled (except)
Next / Previous structural navigation
EPUB Accessibility Specification 1.0 AA
Accessible controls provided
Accessibility summary:
A simple book with the cover, author, and logo images described. This book contains various accessibility features such as a table of contents, page list, landmarks, correct reading order, structural navigation, and semantic structure. A number of blank pages in the print equivalent book have been removed resulting in some pages not appearing in this digital EPUB. This publication conforms to WCAG 2.0 Level AA.
Language tagging provided
Compliance certification by:
https://bornaccessible.org/certification/gca-credential/
-
eBook
- ISBN
- 9780369104304
- Publish Date
- Apr 2023
- List Price
- $13.99
Library Ordering Options
Description
- Will be part of Buddies in Bad Times’s 2022–2023 season with a production in April 2023.
- The play was adapted into a short film in 2020 and presented at the Inside Out Film Festival.
- First produced at the IGNITE! Festival, Calgary, in June 2017
About the authors
Amanda Cordner is a Toronto-based creator and performer. Within her company Madonnanera, Amanda and creative partner David di Giovanni developed and toured the award-winning solo show Body So Fluorescent across North America. Madonnanera’s second show, Wring the Roses, was featured in Why Not Theatre’s RISER Project in 2019. Amanda is also pursuing a career in film and television as a creator and actor. Her company adapted Body So Fluorescent into a short film in 2020, which was presented at the Inside Out Film Festival and won the Emerging Canadian Artist Award. TV credits include Sort Of, The Expanse, and Baroness von Sketch Show.
David di Giovanni is a theatre director and creator currently living in Toronto. He holds an M.F.A. in Theatre Directing from York University. In 2017, he co-founded Madonnanera, a rich creative collaboration with Amanda Cordner that is invested in making outrageous and intersectional theatre work. He has won awards for Outstanding Direction, Outstanding Play, and Outstanding Production (NOW Magazine’s Best of SummerWorks) and Emerging Canadian Artist (Inside Out) for Body So Fluorescent and was nominated for Outstanding Ensemble (Dora Mavor Moore Awards) for Wring the Roses.
Awards
- Nominated, Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers
Editorial Reviews
“Body So Fluorescent is poetic, heartbreaking, and insightful.”
Andrea Warner, Georgia Straight
“The script holds nothing back—though the characters seem to wish it would.”
Mae Smith, alt.theatre
“Body So Fluorescent is brilliant. The show is ferocious and moving.”
Bruce McCulloch, Kids in the Hall