About the Project
The play has received recent success being presenting in four cities between July 2018 to October 2018 including: The Black Theatre Network Conference in Memphis, TN; SummerWorks Performance Festival [Winner of New Performance Text Award] in Toronto, ON; The Halifax Fringe in Nova Scotia; and The Atlanta Black Theatre Festival in Decatur, GA. Since then the play has been picked up by Théâtre de l’Usine in Geneva, Switzerland for a week in January 2019 and Atlanta Black Theatre Festival’s Encore Presentation for April 2019.
The Negroes Are Congregating asks a lot of impolite questions about the ongoing effects of racism and how that ideology continues to exists in Canada and around the world. The Jamaican-Canadian writer, Natasha Adiyana Morris, infuses a taste of Toronto that incorporates accents, landmarks and a sort of local trivia often ignored by mainstream media. Themes of physical, mental, and spiritual freedom cycle from beginning to end.
“Talking about race is exhausting and so I wanted to form my thoughts into live characters, displaying multiple sides of the race conversation. Some characters are full-on revolutionaries, others are complacent, there are parodies and plenty of satire but it ALL reflects uncomfortable truths.”
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Production Team
