The nights nobody saw
Why I staged the play "You Should Have Stayed Home Too" about Toronto's shelter system
By Tommy TaylorTommy Taylor is a Hamilton/Toronto-based playwright, documentary theatre artist and former frontline shelter and harm reduction worker. For years, I worked nights: Respite sites. Church basements in the Out of the Cold program. The Women’s 24-Hour Drop-In in the downtown east end. Shelter hotels during the pandemic. Almost nobody else saw what happened on those shifts. It wasn’t hidden, exactly. It just happened at 3 a.m., to people the city had already decided not to look... Read more
