Research Catalog

Title

Legoland : a vaudeville routine in one act / Jacob Richmond.

Author

Richmond, Jacob, 1974-

Publication

Vancouver, B.C. : Talonbooks, c2009.

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Details

Description

71 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Penny and Ezra Lamb are home-schooled by their parents on a hippie colony near Uranium City until the police discover it also happens to be the largest marijuana grow-op in Saskatchewan. "Legoland" is how their pot-smoking elders always described the outside world, and the Lamb siblings are dying to get there. Once the commune is busted and their parents are sent to prison, sixteen-year-old Penny and her younger brother Ezra, each seething cauldrons of repression, are enrolled in a Catholic private school, where they are instant social outcasts. Penny, ostracized for being a weird "lesbo" (she's not gay), is vulnerably but brilliantly depressive until a classmate gives her a copy of boy band Seven Up's CD and she becomes obsessed with singer Johnny Moon. The self-absorbed Ezra, fixated on German nihilism, plays with his Jeffrey Dahmer puppet, wears white stockings and pops a mind-altering combination of Ritalin and Dexedrine to combat his ADHD. When Seven Up breaks up, Johnny Moon remakes himself as a misogynistic gangsta rapper. Penny, heartbroken but determined to save him and bring back the "real" Johnny Moon, persuades Ezra to accompany her on a pilgrimage down to Orlando to confront her idol. The Lamb siblings run away from school on a bus tour of the Wal-Marts and McDonald's of the continent, financing their trip by selling the Paxil and Ritalin they've been prescribed.

Subject

• Hippies > Drama
• Marijuana > Drama
• Catholic schools > Drama
• Boy bands > Drama
• Drugs > Drama
• Authors, Canadian

Genre/Form

• Drama.
• Drama

Note

• A play.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9780889226104
• 0889226105

OCLC

• 259265925
• SCSB-11234872

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library