The December Man Report
[First produced in 2006, The December Man has, for the most part, received high praise from audiences and critics alike, touted by Playwrights Canada as a “searing drama on courage, heroism, and despair that explores the long private shadow that public violence casts.” Since its debut, The December Man has been awarded the prestigious Governor General's Literary Award for Drama (2007) and the CAA Carol Bolt Award (2008).] 1
[The story unfolds backwards, beginning at the end of the family’s ordeal. When we first see the skyscraper model (Jean’s engineering projects and a symbol of the Fournier family’s gradual deterioration), it is damaged and dusty; by the last scene, which takes place on the day of the shootings, the model is in its original pristine form. This way of writing …show more content…
Similarly, this backward movement helps us to see the steps that lead to the total despair and suicide of Kate and Benoît and aids the discovery of signs that Kate and Benoît might have psychological traits or problems possibly leading to suicidal thoughts.] 2 [The author Colleen Murphy was born in Rouyn-Noranda; Quebec and grew up in Northern Ontario. She studied acting at Ryerson University and at the Strasberg Institute in New York. The entire play dictates from the event of The École Polytechnique Massacre, also known as the Montréal Massacre, occurred on December 6, 1989 at the École Polytechnique in Montréal. Twenty-five-year-old Marc Lépine shot twenty-eight people before killing himself. He began his attack by entering a classroom at the university, where he separated the male and female students. After claiming that he was "fighting feminism," he shot all nine women in the