About

Written & Performed

by daniel jelani ellis

Directed & Dramaturged by d’bi.young anitafrika

A GROUNDWORK REDUX AND BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE PRODUCTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH OBSIDIAN THEATRE

Ginnal is sure like never before: he must make it to Foreign. When he meets a Spider who sets him on the journey, Ginnal faces the cost of freedom. 

Inspired by experiences of growing up queer in Jamaica and finding home in Canada, speaking of sneaking is a multidisciplinary mash-up of dance, poetry, and pantomime, where the archetypal Jamaican Ginnal and the mythical African Anansi meet.

First created in Buddies’ Young Creators Unit, and further developed with the Anitafrika Method for Why Not Theatre’s RISER (where it garnered five Dora nominations, including for outstanding production and outstanding new play), speaking of sneaking returns to the Buddies stage for a full production this fall.

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Photos by Jeremy Mimnagh