When her mother leaves for Canada, 15-year-old Mudgu Sankofa is left in the care of her oh-so-strict grandmother in Kingston, Jamaica. As her story unfolds, Mudgu discovers menstruation and faces personal crisis, all the while longing for love and protection. This Dora Award-winning tour de force is at once tender and raw, strange and filled with a loving pride.

It would be an understatement to describe ‘Blood claat’ (Blood cloth) as a high-octane production, a charged theatrical performance that spirals on a continuous ‘high.’ It’s also a culturally rich, intense and evocative speed-trip through Jamaican-African legend and history, with all its vitality and energy, as well as the indelible shadow of oppression and slavery...

Directed by Roy Surette
This hauntingly beautiful play set in rural Nova Scotia, tells the story of a young man who falls in love with an older woman during WW2. He’s 17, she’s 30. In the midst of their rapturous affair, the woman, Maddy Heisler, suddenly departs for England never to see the youthful Jacob again. Years later, a mysterious young woman arrives in the area and encounters the now aging, Jacob. She carries with her a small notebook, the contents of which open an unexpected door to the past. Secrets and lies, lovers and spies, Jacob will never be the same again.

Yes, believe it or not, our network, born on April Fool’s day, 2001, hatched during a tiny meeting at the now ‘disappeared’ Porté Disparu Café on the Plateau, has reached its seventh full year of existence. And so, on ICN’s cosmic year number seven, David, Nancy, and I would like to invite you to come and celebrate this milestone. It will be held on Tuesday, APRIL FIRST, 2008, starting at 6.00 pm.

Heather Grace Stewart’s poems have been published in Canadian newspapers and literary journals, online journals, international print anthologies, and in the British small presses. Her most recent collection is Where the Butterflies Go (with half the proceeds going to Unicef); she has also penned two non-fiction books for youth (Jackfruitpress.com) and writes regularly for the Queen’s Alumni Review, Canadian Wildlife magazine and Wild! magazine for children. Her photographs have appeared in Equinox and National Geographic Traveler magazines and on the cover of a dozen poetry books. Born in Ottawa, she lives with her family near Montreal. Visit her at http://www.hgrace.com.

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Tickets can be purchased at the door, or reservations can be placed by calling (514) 483-5526, ext.3. As our intimate theatre only accommodates a small crowd, limited seating is available.