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Performances

"Osia" at Summerworks Festival

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First time playwright Jijo Quayson makes her professional debut with Osia, directed by her mentor Brad Fraser and dramaturged by Djanet Sears, Fraser, and, via Nightwood Theatre, Andrea Donaldson. Osia is the story of a Ghanaian family who struggles to find a better future.

"Plucked" at The Summerworks Festival

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Infusing comedy, bluegrass music, and a complete lack of sentimentality, Plucked is set in a world where fear turns women into chickens, eggs are high currency, and vaginas are near-dangerous possessions. Plucked skewers patriarchy without holding punches.

"The Unbelievers" at SummerWorks

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Northern Iraq: August of 2015. It is one year since ISIS massacred the Yazidi people in Sinjar and began sex-trafficking Yazidi women. The Unbelievers follows Sanaa, a Yazidi woman and Orli, a conflict journalist, after their capture by ISIS.

Two Indians

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Win lives on the rez and Roe lives in the city. After years apart two cousins meet in a Toronto alley to recreate a ceremony from their childhood, but can they remember how? Has the world changed too much? Have they?

"Bleeders" at The Summerworks Festival

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An Afro-futurist dub-opera set in Ontario, Bleeders is the culminating play in d’bi.young anitafrika’s new triptych, The Orisha Trilogy. The story takes place way into the future – the Pickering Nuclear Plant has exploded, and a group of Black womxn form a small council.

Like Mother, Like Daughter

Like Mother, Like Daughter
Toronto Premiere | October 24 – 30, 2016
Created and produced by Why Not Theatre and Complicite
Tickets on sale September 2016 

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