SummerWorks Theatre Festival Presents
Bleeders by d'bi.young anitafrika
An Afrofuturist Dub Opera set in Ontario, Bleeders is the culminating play in d’bi.young anitafrika’s new triptych, The Orisha Trilogy. The story takes place way into the future – the Pickering Nuclear Plant has exploded, and a group of Black womxn form a small council. How in the midst of government oppression, repression of the gender revolution, and ecological degradation do we still find hope?
An Afrofuturist Dub Opera set in Ontario, Bleeders is the culminating play in d’bi.young anitafrika’s new triptych, The Orisha Trilogy. The story takes place way into the future – the Pickering Nuclear Plant has exploded, and a group of Black womxn form a small council. How in the midst of government oppression, repression of the gender revolution, and ecological degradation do we still find hope?
Bleeders
by d'bi.young anitafrika
Aug 4-14, 2016
The Watah Theatre is pleased to announce d’bi.young anitafrika’s third instalment in her new triptych – The Orisha Trilogy. Following rave reviews of Parts 1 & 2, Esu Crossing The Middle Passage and She Mami Wata & The Pussy WitchHunt, Bleeders features during The Summerworks Festival on The Theatre Centre main stage from August 4th to 14th, 2016.
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An Afrofuturist Dub Opera set in Ontario, Bleeders takes place way into the future; the Pickering Nuclear Plant has exploded, and a group of Black womxn form a small council. How in the midst of government oppression, repression of the gender revolution and ecological degradation do we still find hope?
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anitafrika is the winner of two Dora awards for Blood.claat. Other awards include: KM Hunter Theatre, Mayor’s Arts, Vital People, Canadian Poet of Honor, Toronto Leadership Lab Fellow and YWCA Woman of Distinction in the Arts. She is an internationally celebrated African-Jamaican dubpoet, playwright-monodramatist, arts-educator, and Artistic Director of The Watah Theatre, whose trans-disciplinary work (dubpoetry, theatre, music, dance, writing, storytelling) explores themes of identity, gender, sexuality, divinity, the erotic, race, class and the human experience. She is the creator of the human development framework – The Sorplusi Method – which has been employed by The Stephen Lewis Foundation, The Banff Centre, U of T, MaRS, Women’s College Hospital and other institutions globally.
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Bleeders features Aquilla Rootz, Sashoya Shoya Oya, Raven Dauda, Najla Nubyanluv, Olunike Adeliyi, Aisha Bentham, Nickeshia Garrick, Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah and Ravyn Wngs. This all-star cast is lead by Director d’bi.young anitafrika and Musical Director Waleed Abdulhamid (featuring the Dub Orchestra, The 333), who along with Dora Nominated Composer tuku, will create a riveting score to accompany anitafrika’s provocative words. With lightning design by Sharmylae Taffe-Fletcher and set & costume’s by Rachel Forbes, Bleeders is a theatrical experience that no one should miss.
MEDIA
Toronto Star: 3.5 out of 4 stars for Esu Crossing the Middle Passage bit.do/StarEsuReview
Now Magazine: 4 N’s and Critics Pick for She Mami Wata & The Pussy WitchHunt bit.do/NowSheReview
BLEEDERS
Playwright/Director d’bi.young anitafrika
Performers Aquilla Rootz, Sashoya Shoya Oya, Raven Dauda, Najla Nubyanluv, Olunike Adeliyi, Aisha Bentham, Nickeshia Garrick, Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah, Ravyn Wngs and d’bi.young anitafrika
Musical Director/Composer Waleed Abdulhamid Composer tuku
Choreograper Nickeshia Garrick
Set/Costume Rachel Forbes
Lighting Designer Sharmylae Taffe-Fletcher
Stage Manager Kathleen Jones
Assistant Stage Manager Samson Brown
Producer Brett Haynes
Executive Producer d’bi.young anitafrika
August 4-14, 2016 | Summerworks Festival | Theatre Centre Main Space
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