A Poem for Rabia
Douban
opening date:
2023-10-17
~ 2023-11-12
genre:
话剧
troupe:
A Tarragon Theatre Production in association with Nightwood Theatre and Undercurrent Creations
theater:
Tarragon Theatre
director:
Clare Preuss
/
Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
playwright:
Nikki Shaffeeullah
actor:
Virgilia Griffith
/
Michelle Mohammed
/
Adele Noronha
/
Jay Northcott
/
Anand Rajaram
/
Nikki Shaffeeullah
overview
An epic journey across time, oceans, and tectonic shifts in political history.
A Poem for Rabia weaves the stories of three queer women from the same bloodline: Zahra, a disillusioned activist in 2053, navigating a Canada that has just abolished prisons; Betty, in 1953 British Guiana, caught between her new secretarial job at the Governor’s office and the growing national independence movement; and Rabia, an Indian domestic worker in 1853, abducted by colonial ‘recruiters’ and sent sailing from Calcutta to the Caribbean on an indentured labour ship.