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Rendez-vous with Home
When news of their father’s death comes to Canada, sisters Josephine and Suzette take a trip to Haiti to bury a man they hardly knew.

SHE is a Black woman asking real questions about life. HE is a Black man searching for meaning and understanding. Together, they fight to make their relationship last in a world where “the rules” are always changing. A fusion of personal experiences and fiction, playwright Anne-Marie Woods conveys in this new work the vulnerability felt in romantic relationships and the importance of communication. Through compelling monologues, poetry and song, the female/male rapport is laid bare in this tragicomic battle of wits. She Said/He Said is a fresh and nuanced look at relationships through a script that cleverly meanders through the present and past experiences of its two main characters. Where time is subjective, the fourth wall is intermittently torn down and location though specific is universal. Woods has taken a non-conventional approach to telling a modern day love story.
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2016, Black Theatre Workshop, Montreal
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Unpublished
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Playwright's LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/imanienterprises#:~:text=The%20Three%20Friends%20stars%20Playwright,they%20weren't%20always%20acceptable%3F
Playwright's LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/imanienterprises#:~:text=The%20Three%20Friends%20stars%20Playwright,they%20weren't%20always%20acceptable%3F

Stylized
When news of their father’s death comes to Canada, sisters Josephine and Suzette take a trip to Haiti to bury a man they hardly knew.

Plays with Music
Three women explore their different connections to Haiti along the spectrum of diaspora: Nadège was born in Canada but feels the loss of the land she’s never known, treasuring a jar of earth from Haiti given to her by her grandmother; Céleste has been away for 20 years and now returned, her Canadianization interfering with her ability to re-integrate to the culture; and Man Sara gives advice, tells stories, and otherwise administers to her community from her “boutique” shop in a Haitian village, having never left her country.--Dorianne Emmerton