Brendan McLeod -How NOT to Write a Love Letter

Brendan Mcleod on how not to write a love letter, part of his new monologue, "The Fruit Machine."

Brendan McLeod
Brendan McLeod is a writer and musician based out of Vancouver. He is the author of the novel, 'The Convictions of Leonard McKinley' and the play 'The Big Oops'. He's a member of The Fugitives and a former Canadian SLAM poetry champion. His newest monologue is called 'The Fruit Machine'.


The Fruit Machine (and Similar Stories)

In the 1950's, the RCMP set out to fire every homosexual in Canada 's civil service. In the process, they built a machine aimed at scientifically detecting homosexuality, which became known as 'The Fruit Machine'. In his monologue of the same name, Brendan McLeod explores the absurd activities our nation has undertaken under the guise of protecting its families. Drawing on subjects as disparate as Facebook, the BC court system, adultery, Iron Maiden, and the invention of birth control, Brendan weaves parallels between one hundred years of Canadian history and his own neurotic existence. In firm disagreement with the words of William Lyon Mackenzie King, "Canadians in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people," he explores the more extreme aspects of our nation - and himself - in a comedy about death, disease, and anxiety, which is ultimately a meditation on the natures of responsibility and fear.

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