Calpurnia
By Audrey Dwyer
Directed by Jon Lachlan Stewart
Presented at the MAI Café (Montréal, arts interculturels)
3680 Jeanne-Mance, Montreal H2X 2K5
May 16th 2016 at 7:30pm
Tickets: $12
BOX OFFICE: 514-932-1104
Julie, a young Afro-Canadian screenwriter, is retelling
To Kill a Mockingbird.
This time the story will be told from the perspective of …
A Black woman.
Calpurnia.
The Finch family’s maid.
In pursuit of perspective to cure her writer’s block, Julie upturns an important family dinner party. Hilarity and tension ensue in this satirical comedy that takes a caustic look at class,race, identity and family dynamics under the roof of a wealthy Jamaican Canadian home.
Calpurnia is a part of Black Theatre Workshop's Discovery Series play development initiative that promotes the unseen work of emerging and established Black Canadian playwrights. This event supports Black Theatre Workshop’s mandate to reflect culturally diverse Canadian voices.
