Cake

By Donna-Michelle St. Bernard

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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First produced

2017, New Harlem Productions & Passe Muraille, Toronto

Publication year

2019

Published by

Playwrights Canada Press

ISBN

9781770919709

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