Trey Anthony returns to the NWT to 'speak the unspeakable things' in NACC performance
The multi-talented Canadian Trey Anthony, known for her award-winning play, Da Kink in My Hair, is set to tour several NWT communities and take the stage at the Northern Arts and Cultural Centre (NACC) in Yellowknife this week with a new performance.
Black Girl in Love (With Herself) Speaking the Unspeakable Things, promises to be an evening of music, comedy, dialogue, and insight, Marie Coderre, executive and artistic director of NACC said.
'It's about the life of black women and what they are experiencing in this world and in society on a daily basis. And also, there's a touch of humor too,' Coderre said.
'You will navigate through a different range of emotions when you watch a play like this and she is giving us a really good taste of the intimacy of what's up in the world of black woman on a daily basis.'
Anthony, a Jamaican-British-Canadian, is known as the 'Oprah of Canada' and is the first Black woman in Canada to have her own primetime series on a major television network.
The versatile performer is also a writer whose newly released book Black Girl in Love (With Herself) has been published by Hay House and she has written for Global Television, the Women's Television Network and the Comedy Network, among others.
Described as 'an uncensored night of true sisterhood and support', Black Girl in Love will delve into what is considered the 'taboo' topics of infertility, fibroids, miscarriage and black women and therapy, among others, such as questions surrounding motherhood.
Coderre said such stories are 'very important'.
'We learn something new when it's not our reality, and to me, it's a high-quality scenario and script and text and Trey is a gifted artist. We're very lucky that she accepted to come to the Northwest Territories.
'And, you know, in the NWT, there are Indigenous woman who can relate to Black women on many levels. So I think it will be a fantastic tour and to have a cultural exchange,' Coderre said.
'It's going to be a show that is very blunt, very transparent, and it's an intimate experience of what Black girls experience on a daily basis in a contemporary setting. And it's about the past, the present, and the future too, as well.'
Black Girl in Love (With Herself) will be performed in Norman Wells on May 20, in Inuvik on May 22 and at NACC in Yellowknife on May 24.
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