The Doorman of Windsor Station

By Julie Vincent and Javier Alfonso

Francisco will forever be haunted by the sight of his best friend Juan lying on the floor of a train station, pierced by five bullets. He’ll remember that sight as he flees the political uprising in Uruguay that night. He’ll remember when he’s holding a dying homeless man in Windsor Station in Montreal eight months later. He’ll remember when he’s a successful architect. He’ll remember when he’s having an affair with a Québécoise pianist named Claire. He’ll remember when he’s much older, a vagrant sleeping in a café that was once part of Windsor Station, where he meets his son, an activist in the student strikes in Quebec.

As he tries for a better life, Francisco’s past keeps finding him, until it blurs with the present in a series of hallucinations, challenging him to reclaim his identity and his rights.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
• Release date: Sep 18, 2017
• ISBN: 9781770918153

Julie Vincent

Julie is an artist, poet, singer, song writer, PhD, and given the opportunity, a performer. She finished her PhD in Social Theory on the ethics of practice in mental health services at The University of Melbourne and travelled the world, creating art and poetry as she went. She came back and travelled across the top end, creating songs, poems and art works en route. She lectured at Newcastle University School of Nursing and volunteered in Orphanages in India and a health project in Uganda and the World Social Forum in Nairobi. In 2008 she was in an accident that nearly killed her and saved her life. She had a spiritual experience and married an Aboriginal man and found herself in Alice Springs Volunteering with Indigenous kids!