Mike Payette Nick: Liz Valdez

Black Theatre Workshop Dept: Dennis Foon wrote the play in 1981. It continues to resonate with audiences 31 years later, according to Montreal Gazette. "We've been playing for audiences ranging from kindergarten age right up to CEGEP," actor Mike Payette Nick said. "Each age group relates to it on a different level." The play New Canadian Kid is about the bullying endured by a young immigrant boy named Nick and his mom after they arrive in Canada from their invented native country Homeland. Black Theatre Workshop is touring Montreal-area schools throughout February with a slightly updated version, directed by Liz Valdez. There is one public performance at the F.C. Smith Auditorium at Concordia University's Loyola campus, Feb. 25 at 2 p.m. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.