Sunday Read: First-Person Matthew Mackenzie on creating SIA
Full of Fire and HopeA journey, cultural dislocation and a playby Matthew Mackenzie (photos courtesy of Matthew Mackenzie)In the fall of 2003 I flew from Alberta to West Africa, with a brief stopover in Toronto. My plan was to go and research my play concerning the civil war that had recently torn the tiny country of Liberia apart. Talked out of going directly to Liberia by my parents, I decided to go to …