Cake @ the FOOT Festival – February 4-6, 2011

join us for a reading of

 

CAKE* by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard 

on February 4

at 6:30pm

 

Directed by: Clare Preuss

Assistant director: Aura Carcueva

Featuring: Lisa Karen Cox, Ash Knight and Jamie Robinson

 

Oba holds together the last shreds of his dignity with trembling hands.  He is a nominal barrier between his companion Femi and colleague Aarif; a paragon of past triumphs sucked dry; a man torn between pride and need.  Cake is the latest contribution to the 54-ology, a series that looks at regionally specific issues across the African continent.

this reading is part of

 

Festival Of Original Theatre 2011: Performing Back

A Conference devoted to Post-Colonial Theatre

February 4 – 6, 2011

Robert Gill Theatre, Graduate Centre for Study of Drama,                        

University of Toronto 

3rd Floor, 214 College St.

(north-west corner of St. George and College – use St. George entrance)  Toronto, Ontario                

visit the FOOT 2011 website for stimulating discourse and new performance works, including

 

TWO OLD WOMEN by Yvette Nolan  

on February 4

at 12:30

*Cake’s development is supported through the Ontario Arts Council’s Theatre Creator’s Reserve Program, recommender: Summerworks Theatre Festival.