The most diverse poetry reading and open mic in Toronto At Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) we don’t just wait for diversity to happen: we actively invite it.
Featured poets: Liz Howard & Ali Ibrahimi Host: Bänoo Zan
Time: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 Place: Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St., Toronto, ON M6G 2L8
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.
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.
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.
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?
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 Toronto Premiere | October 24 – 30, 2016 Created and produced by Why Not Theatre and Complicite Tickets on sale September 2016
