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.
Cake
Oba, a middle-aged businessman, is torn between his pride and dignity. He’s obsessed with making deals in unidentified substances to stay afloat. A powerful client named Araf arrives, interested in Oba’s business, but also his fierce, inherited servant Femi. Oba’s young progeny Mabo is hungry and desperate, but still driven by his skills and sympathetic to the needs of others. Cake humanizes the dynamic between Niger and Iran and their clandestine trade in uranium, presenting a dark and critical look at oppression, consumerism, and what happens when all our resources dry up.
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Production and Publication
First produced
2017, New Harlem Productions & Passe Muraille, Toronto
Publication year
2019
Published by
Playwrights Canada Press
ISBN
9781770919709
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