Black Voices and Enduring Stories
This February, StratFest@Home honours Black History Month by spotlighting powerful works that centre Black voices, histories and experiences. These productions explore identity and belonging across generations and cultures. Join us in celebrating the enduring impact of Black artists and storytellers.
- Wedding Band (Extended due to popular demand!) – A powerful portrayal of interracial love in World War I-era South Carolina during the 1918 flu epidemic.
- Death and the King’s Horseman – Inspired by a real-life incident, this masterpiece from Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka celebrates a community striving to uphold its culture in the face of colonial power.
- Serving Elizabeth – An ingenious contemporary drama exploring issues of colonialism, nationalism and the question of who gets to have a voice.
- Othello – Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, brought to life with an exploration of race, jealousy and betrayal.
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Black Ballerina (Coming This February)
A filmed performance by award-winning artist Syreeta Hector, exploring race, identity and the world of classical ballet through her own mixed-race experience. Blending ballet with street, contemporary and Indigenous movement, Hector creates a poetic collage of sound and imagery that challenges lo...
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Movie + 3 extrasWedding Band
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From the Stratford Festival's 2023 season, Alice Childress's powerful play Wedding Band, an emotional and revealing portrayal of interracial love, set in South Carolina in the shadow of the First World War and the 1918 flu epidemic. As Julia, a Black seamstress, and Herman, a white baker, face th...
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Movie + 1 extraDeath and the King's Horseman
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The greater the honour, the deeper the shame.
In British-occupied Nigeria, the king is dead, and it is the duty of his horseman, Elesin (Anthony Santiago), to accompany him into the afterlife. While lustily enjoying the pleasures of this world, Elesin proudly anticipates his transition to the n...
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MovieServing Elizabeth
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IN THE SCRIPT OF HISTORY, WHO GETS A SPEAKING ROLE?
In Kenya in 1952, Mercy, a restaurant proprietor, is hired to cater the impending visit of Princess Elizabeth, soon to be Queen. In 2015, another story unfolds in London, England, where a young Kenyan-born Canadian, Tia, is working as an intern...
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Movie + 1 extraOthello
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WHEN PASSION MEETS POISON.
Undeterred by the differences in their backgrounds and life experiences, Othello and Desdemona defy prejudice to be united in marriage. But deadly malice lurks where the newlyweds least expect it, as the one man Othello trusts the most resolves to destroy their happine...
