Dead White Writer on the Floor By Drew Hayden Taylor (Grades 10+)

Dead White Writer on the Floor uses theatre of the absurd and mystery novels to create a funny and thought-provoking play about identity politics. It follows six “savages”, noble, innocent, ignorant, fearless, wise and gay, respectively, who find themselves in a locked room with the body of a white writer, which they stash in a closet. No one knows how the writer died, or who killed him. As they accuse each other of being the killer, they each come to the conclusion that they are happy with their lives. They decide that they can use the dead writer's tools to write themselves a new destiny.