"Benu is a story about a young queer black mother who is entangled in the health care system and in her own mind" "sekesu sankofa, daughtxr of mudgu sankofa, is a new mothxr. entangled in a web of unexplained headaches, as sekesu tries to make sense of her life post-delivery. shx is led down a path of fear, discovery, and renewal — like the phoenix that rises from its ashes — in a mississauga hospital. reality meets myth, magic meets ritual, as the second story in d’bi.young’s biomyth monodrama trilogy unfolds in firesome ways." -- d'bi.young anitafrika.
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2011, Tarragon Theatre, Toronto
2023
Playwrights Canada Press
9780369104465
Published in the Spolrusi anthology Part 2 of the Sankofa Trilogy, which includes Blood.Claat and Word!Sound!Powah! Also Included in the anthology "From the Ashes Six Solo Plays" Edited by Shauntay Grant
Published in the Spolrusi anthology Part 2 of the Sankofa Trilogy, which includes Blood.Claat and Word!Sound!Powah! Also Included in the anthology "From the Ashes Six Solo Plays" Edited by Shauntay Grant
Plays with Music
An afrofuturistic dubopera set in a postapocalyptic Toronto some years after the explosion of the Pickering Nuclear plant which causes widespread infertility in humans; Lukumi centres on gender and the environment.
Plays with Music
Esu Crossing The Middle Passage, set aboard a slave ship, follows a womxn’s journey into the Trans Atlantic slave trade embodied by the spirit of Esu – the trickster God of Ifa, who sits at the crossroads.
