Plays with Music
The Misfit
The Mistfit tells the story of Naz, an Indo-Canadian woman working as a classical Indian dancer who performs to the music of English-language pop songs at weddings.
Crybaby
"A young woman falls in love for the first time, opening up a well of feeling about her Blackness, her identity, her childhood, sexuality, and womanhood in a poetic performance that uses memory and projections to ask the question: How can we be whole when a part of us is missing?" - From a FB post from the Black theatre workshop in Montreal
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First produced
2019, Black Theatre Workshop and Playwrights Workshop Montreal, Montreal
Publication year
2023
Published by
Playwrights Canada Press
ISBN
9780369104465
Included in From the Ashes: Six Solo Plays
Included in From the Ashes: Six Solo Plays
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