A one-woman memory play. Alone in her Winnipeg nursing home, Libya receives an unexpected visitor from Barbados. Past repression resurfaces, until the tragedy that shaped her life spills from her soul. Written in very heavy dialect of Barbados (the playwright's birthplace).
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Solo show with monologue potential for mature woman
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2005, Nightwood Theatre, Toronto
2006
Playwrights Canada Press
0-88754-842-3, 9780887548420
Realistic
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Realistic
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