• The play had its worldwide premiere in 2018, but Audrey rewrote it after the murder of George Floyd before a production in April 2022.
• The play is a great resource for examining classics under a modern lens and a learning tool for anti-oppression, asking “how are we in the world today?”
• First produced by Nightwood Theatre and Sulong Theatre at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto, in January 2018

À propos des auteurs

Dwyer, Audrey

Audrey Dwyer is a multi-disciplinary artist with over twenty years of experience working as an actor, director, playwright, teacher, artistic director, facilitator, and mentor. In 2018, Audrey Dwyer was named one of the eighteen artists to watch by NOW Magazine. That year, her play Calpurnia became a box-office hit on the Toronto scene. Calpurnia was named one of the five hottest tickets in Canada across the country by The Globe and Mail. Her writing includes The D Cut, an award-winning six-episode series on Crave and Shaftesbury Film’s KindaTV YouTube channel. She was one of the winners of the CBC Creative Relief Fund to create a television pilot called The Gordons. She has been commissioned by the Tarragon Theatre to write Come Home—The Legend of Daddy Hall. Her libretto Backstage at Carnegie Hall was recently produced in Montreal. She’s been commissioned by Nightswimming Theatre to write The Generations, an epic five-hour drama about the legacy of a Black family over many thousands of years. She graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada.

Venzon, Hazel

Hazel Venzon is a multifaceted theatre artist whose work often circles her back to her roots. She’s worked with Prairie Theatre Exchange, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Theatre Projects Manitoba, University of Winnipeg, Art Holm, Manitoba Association of Playwrights, Rainbow Stage, Young Lungs Dance Exchange, Mammalian Diving Reflex, Volcano, Cahoots Theatre, fu-GEN Theatre, Soulpepper, Chop Theatre, Theatre Replacement, Belfry Theatre, Green Thumb Theatre, Caravan Farm Theatre, Boca del Lupo, Ruby Slippers Theatre, Rumble Theatre, Urban Ink, Urban Crawl, and vAct. Hazel is the co-founder, executive director, and artistic producer of U N I Together Productions.