A solo show telling the story of four friends, united in childhood and their lives in present-day Jamaica: a picture of lust, love and the forces that would seek to deny them. They navigate their complex relationships and love against a backdrop of misogyny and homophobia.
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2016, The Watah Theatre, Toronto
2017
Playwrights Canada Press
9781770917972
included in QUEER/PLAY, anthology edited by Moynan King. Part 2 of the Orisha Trilogy https://dbiyounganitafrika.com/orisha-trilogy
included in QUEER/PLAY, anthology edited by Moynan King. Part 2 of the Orisha Trilogy https://dbiyounganitafrika.com/orisha-trilogy
Stylized
It takes place in The Hill District of Pittsburgh in 1977, in a gypsy cab station, during Pittsburgh’s period of so-called “urban renewal.” As the city tries to shut down businesses -- including the cab station -- to make way for new building, we meet five gypsy cab drivers struggling to survive.
Stylized
Aunt Esther, the drama’s 287-year-old fiery matriarch, welcomes into her Hill District home Solly Two Kings, who was born into slavery and scouted for the Union Army, and Citizen Barlow, a young man from Alabama searching for a new life.
