For six years of her childhood, Claudette and her sister Valerie were left with their grandmother while their mother, Daphne, moved from Jamaica to the United States to start a new chapter for their family. But in that time, Daphne remarried and had another daughter. Claudette, now in her late thirties, travels to visit her dying mother in Brooklyn, but that doesn’t stop her anger and abandonment issues from bubbling up. It doesn’t stop Daphne from voicing her opinions on how Claudette lives her life, either. With Daphne, Claudette, and Valerie all under one roof again, each family member is forced to confront their emotions while there’s still time
2016, Factory Theatre, Toronto
2017
Playwrights Canada Press
9781770918023
Realistic
The Driver family struggles to cope with an accident that robs them of a mother, leaving them to care for her as she fights to regain her memory. Good Mother examines the ties that hold a family together and the crises that draw them apart.
Historical
THE MILL stands: battered and surrounded by ash. Inside, five young people are clinging to life. A surprising conclusion to the series, ASH is a dark and poignant fable that confronts the sins of our ancestors and our struggle to find hope in the darkest of corners of our nation’s past – and within the mill itself. Can hope take root on such poisoned ground?
