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    How Black Mothers Say I Love You
    How Black Mothers Say I Love You
    How Black Mothers Say I Love You
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    How Black Mothers Say I Love You

    By Trey Anthony

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    From the author of the blockbuster hit ‘da Kink in my hair comes an emotional and raw look into family dynamics, trust, resolution and change.

    Claudette still can’t forgive her mother for leaving. For six years of her childhood, Claudette and her sister Valerie were left with their grandmother while their mother, Daphne, moved from Jamaica to the United States to start a new chapter for their family. But in that time, Daphne remarried and had another daughter.

    Claudette, now in her late thirties, travels to visit her dying mother in Brooklyn, but that doesn’t stop her anger and abandonment issues from bubbling up. It doesn’t stop Daphne from voicing her opinions on how Claudette lives her life, either. With Daphne, Claudette, and Valerie all under one roof again, each family member is forced to confront their emotions while there’s still time.

    Though rooted in buried strife and sadness, How Black Mothers Say I Love You is full of humour, love and tenderness as it explores the complicated perceptions of immigrant mothers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPlaywrights Canada Press
    Release dateNov 6, 2017
    ISBN9781770918047
    How Black Mothers Say I Love You
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    Trey Anthony

    Trey Anthony is known for the groundbreaking and award-winning television and theatrical production ’da Kink in my hair. She is the first Black Canadian woman to write and produce a television show in prime time on a major Canadian network. Trey is a former television producer for the Women’s Television Network (now W) and a writer for the Comedy Network and CTV. She was recently named a Bell Media Fellow, which recognizes emerging television producers and their contribution to Canadian media. She is the creator of the wellness speaking series “A black girl in love with herself.” She is regularly invited to schools to speak to students about sexuality, body image, and other issues. Originally based in Toronto, Trey now lives in Georgia.

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      How Black Mothers Say I Love You - Trey Anthony

      The Historical Backdrop of How Black Mothers Say I Love You

      In 1955, Canada and North America introduced the West Indian Domestic Scheme. This scheme allowed eligible black women from mainly Jamaica and Barbados who were between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five, in good health, with no family ties and at least an eighth-grade education to enter Canada and parts of the US. Many women went to Canada, New York, and Miami. After one year as a domestic servant, these women were given landed-immigrant status and were able to apply for citizenship after five years. Even though the scheme originally allowed only one hundred women per year, 2,690 women had entered Canada from Jamaica and Barbados by 1965. In 1962, discriminatory language was taken out of the Canadian Immigration Act and the number of Jamaicans who came to Canada dramatically increased.

      After the 1960s

      Because changes in the Immigration Act allowed non‐whites to enter Canada without restrictions, many Jamaicans took advantage of the opportunity and entered Canada with hopes of achieving their goals for a better life. After the purging of many racist immigration policies, a large number of Jamaicans started to enter Canada as tourists and many would later apply independently for landed-immigrant status. In the late 1960s, the Canadian government instituted the family reunification clause into its immigration policy, which made it even easier for Jamaicans and other groups to bring their loved ones to join them in Canada. Thus, during the 1970s and ’80s, many Jamaicans who entered Canada were children and husbands of the Jamaican women who came to Canada between 1955 and 1965.*

      * This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Jamaican Canadians (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaican_Canadians), which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).

      Production History

      How Black Mothers Say I Love You was first produced by Trey Anthony and Girls in Bow Ties Productions at the Factory Theatre Mainspace, Toronto, from May 5–15, 2016, with the following cast and creative team:

      Daphne: Ordena Thompson

      Claudette: Robinne Fanfair

      Valerie: Allison Edwards-Crewe

      Cloe: Jewelle Blackman

      Director: Trey Anthony

      Producer: Carys Lewis

      Production Manager: Kimahli Powell

      Stage Manager: Ashlyn Ireland

      Choreographer: Irma Villafuerte

      Set / Costume / Prop Design: Rachel Forbes

      Set / Costume Design Assistant: Emily Butters

      Lighting Designer: Steve Lucas

      Composer / Sound Designer: Gavin Bradley

      Outreach Coordinator: Bridget Norris-Jones

      Production Assistant: Jada Crowell

      The play was later remounted at Factory Theatre from February 4 through March 5, 2017, and later toured to Mississauga, Whitby, and Ottawa.

      A General Timeline for the Play

      Daphne had Claudette in Jamaica when she was seventeen. Two years later she had Valerie.

      Daphne came to the US when she was twenty-four years old, leaving behind Claudette, age seven, and Valerie, age five. After being in the US for two years she met Cloe’s dad, married him and had Cloe. She was separated from her two other children for six years. By the time Valerie and Claudette came to the US, Cloe was four years old; Claudette was thirteen when she came to the US, and Valarie was eleven. Daphne was thirty years old when the girls arrived. Cloe died six years after the girls arrived at ten years old.

      Claudette was nineteen years old when Cloe died and Valerie was seventeen. Daphne was thirty-six years old when Cloe died. The play begins in the present day, eighteen years after Cloe’s death…

      Characters

      Daphne: Fifty-four-year-old former domestic worker from Jamaica. She has terminal cancer. She is a very religious woman. She’s known for being a bit dramatic and loves to tell a good story; however, she is also a very private and proud woman.

      Claudette: Thirty-seven years old, a social worker and a social activist. She is Daphne’s eldest daughter. She’s a pretty tomboy type who often wears a white T-shirt and a pair of jeans, occasionally she wears red lipstick.

      Valerie: Thirty-five years old, married into money, but works at her husband’s office. She is Daphne’s middle daughter. She is pretty and tends to be a bit stiff and proper. She values tradition and the proper way of doing things. She tends to dress like Michelle Obama. She is the peacemaker of the family, and thus often has a nervous energy about her.

      Cloe: Daphne’s youngest child. She is dead. Yet her spirit remains a constant presence in the house. Cloe is seen mainly by Daphne but felt by everyone. Cloe died when she was ten years old from sickle-cell anemia.

      Act One

      A simple Caribbean-style kitchen in Brooklyn. In the kitchen is a table with four chairs. On the counter sits an old radio / cassette player. Soft gospel music with West Indian flavour is playing. daphne, an older West Indian black woman is in the kitchen using a mortar and pestle to pound nutmeg. She is singing along to the church hymn that is playing from the radio. She is visibly surprised when claudette gingerly enters the room. claudette is a black woman in her late thirties, simply dressed in blue jeans, a white T-shirt and simple black boots. She is pretty, tomboyish and wearing light lip gloss and simple

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