Estranged teenage cousins Eli and Kat have recently met online and bonded over their queer identities, but they have a limited understanding of each other’s very different realities. In Italy, soft-spoken Eli is trying to find a way to come out as trans to his conservative Roman Catholic family. In Canada, strong-headed Kat is desperate for connection to a culture and place she’s never known.

Kat and her friend Hannah are the only ones who know that Eli is trans—not even his brother Matteo knows. And while her intentions are good, Kat’s decision to crowdfund a flight for Eli to attend Toronto Pride unknowingly outs him to the public, setting off a chain of events that leave the cousins and their loved ones reeling.

Full of poetry, laughter, and big questions, this touching story paints a portrait of what it’s like for young people wanting to reconcile what they’ve inherited with what feels right.

kai fig taddei (they/them or no pronouns) is a queer and trans writer, editor, and law student, born and raised on the unceded and unsurrendered territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples. kai wrote this play early in their second puberty, which probably explains all the teenage angst.

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Paula Wing is a playwright, translator, and teacher. Plays in progress include Vox Lumina, a story centred around medieval mystic Hildegard of Bingen, and The Cabin, a play about land and history in cottage country. Paula’s adaptation of Josh Funk’s picture book How to Code a Sandcastle premiered at Thousand
Islands Playhouse in 2021. Her most recent translation is Home by Mireille Tawfik for Montreal’s Imago Theatre. Paula teaches youth in partnership with many organizations including the Gryphon Trio’s Listen Up program, Kick Start Arts, Young People’s Theatre, and Soulpepper Theatre. She’s a sessional professor at the University of Windsor, and the creative writing instructor at the Native Men’s Residence in Toronto. Paula is also a sought-after dramaturge, currently working with, among others, Sarena Parmar on Hunger, at Tarragon Theatre, and on Pawâgan (a Cree adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth) by Reneltta Arluk for the Stratford Festival.

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• Short-listed, Lambda Literary Award for Drama