21 Black Futures : The Anthology / Obsidian Theatre Company.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Obsidian Theatre Company, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian drama--Black authors.

Canadian drama.

Canadian drama--21st century.

Genre:

Monodramas (Literature)

Drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (165 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : Playwrights Canada Press, [2023]

Summary:

In 2021, Obsidian Theatre engaged twenty-one writers to create twenty-one new stories about imagined Black futures. Each playwright was tasked with scripting a ten-minute monodrama in response to the question "What is the future of Blackness?" To counter the intense early-pandemic isolation and the trauma of witnessing heightened violence toward Black bodies, Obsidian's goal was to give as many opportunities to as many diverse Black artists as possible and to bring new voices together from both theatre and film. A radical offering in unprecedented times, newly appointed Obsidian artistic director Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu's curatorial aim was joyful, aspirational, and empowering: create something communal, unapologetically Black, and with the Black gaze at its centre--art as the architecture for creating those futures.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-3691-0457-9