KANIKA AMBROSE ORIGINAL SERIES

Kanika Ambrose is a playwright, libre ist, screenwriter and mom. She is the Associate Artistic Director of Necessary Angel Theatre Company. A Scarborough native, Kanika currently lives in rural Ontario with her husband and son; ask her about it, she’ll tell you. Kanika’s work has premiered at stages and screens large and small in Toronto and in the U.S. Her critically acclaimed play, our place, premiered at Theatre Passe Muraille in November 2022 and her new opera Of the Sea, with composer Ian Cusson, premiered in March 2023 at Toronto’s historical Bluma Appel Theatre.

SYNOPSIS Toronto, 1980. In the wake of a string of senseless police killing black people, a black Caribbean woman on the domestic work program, does everything she can to keep on the straight and narrow, but when a fellow domestic worker and friend, is publicly violated by police, she realizes she must join other black feminists in the fight for their lives.

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