At the same time, teenaged Elliot pursues his secret "sissy boy" ambitions while bullied by Derrick, a troubled schoolmate who himself is mired in a web of lies. Elliot's friend Ivan may be able to stop the inevitable disasterâÂ?Â?but only if he can find the courage to transform himself.

A thrilling puzzle weaving two generations, The Shooting Stage explores how boys become men, and how the fortunate survive violence through acts of the imagination.

Born in Vancouver, Michael Lewis MacLennan now divides his time between Toronto, Vancouver, and Los Angeles, working as a playwright, screenwriter, and TV producer. He is a two-time finalist for Canadaâ??s Governor Generalâ??s Literary Award, and the only playwright to win the Herman Voaden National Playwriting Award twice. His first play, Beat the Sunset, garnered Vancouverâ??s Jessie Richardson Award for outstanding emerging playwright and was the winner of the Theatrum National Playwriting Competition. Grace won the Theatre BC National Playwriting Competition and has been produced across Canada and internationally. His next two plays The Shooting Stage and Last Romantics both won the Voaden Prize and were Governor General Award nominees. As a screenwriter, Michael has been nominated five times for the Writers Guild of Canada Screenwriting Award. He was co-executive producer of Queer as Folk, and executive producer and creator of both Godivaâ??s and the new series jPod, based on Douglas Couplandâ??s novel.

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