Yolanda and Adanma are young female resistance fighters who find themselves sharing the same jail cell in the final years of Angola's civil war. During that decades-long conflict, underage girls often would be forcibly kidnapped and married to UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola) militants. Rather than submit to that fate, Yolanda & Adanma have become "Sarahs", members of an all-female rebel movement led by a charismatic leader with whom both Yolanda & Adanma are in love and whom they are now in danger of betraying as a result of their imprisonment and torture.
-
-
Scenes 1, 2, 9 suited for scene study
2012, New Harlem Production, Ontario
2018
Playwrights Canada Press
978-1-77091-915-0
included in Q2Q: Queer Canadian Performance Texts, edited by Peter Dickinson, C.E. Gatchalian, Kathleen Oliver and Dalbir Singh
included in Q2Q: Queer Canadian Performance Texts, edited by Peter Dickinson, C.E. Gatchalian, Kathleen Oliver and Dalbir Singh
Stylized
Based on over seventy interviews conducted around the world explores the lives of trans women, as told in their own words. These unique and compelling stories are honest, funny, moving, insightful, and inspiring, but most of all, they are human, shedding light not on our differences but on what we all, as humans, share.
Realistic
This plays begins with sketches of African American clichés—an angry, foul-mouthed comedian; an aspiring young rapper who ends up in prison—and ends with a seemingly naturalistic parlor comedy, which slyly reveals the larger game Lee is playing, leaving us to consider the many ways that we see the world through a racial lens.
