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    Cake
    Cake
    Cake
    Ebook72 pages33 minutes

    Cake

    By Donna-Michelle St. Bernard, Nikki Shaffeeullah and Kern Albert

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    A man earns. However little, however nefariously, he earns.

    Oba, a middle-aged businessman, is torn between his pride and dignity. He’s obsessed with making deals in unidentified substances to stay afloat. A powerful client named Araf arrives, interested in Oba’s business, but also his fierce, inherited servant Femi. Oba’s young progeny Mabo is hungry and desperate, but still driven by his skills and sympathetic to the needs of others.

    In this stark and poetic musing on the nature and poisons of survival, Cake humanizes the dynamic between Niger and Iran and their clandestine trade in uranium, presenting a dark and critical look at oppression, consumerism, and what happens when all of our resources are dried up.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPlaywrights Canada Press
    Release dateApr 2, 2019
    ISBN9781770919723
    Cake
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    Donna-Michelle St. Bernard

    Donna-Michelle St. Bernard, a.k.a. Belladonna the Blest, is an emcee, playwright, and agitator. Her main body of work, the 54ology, includes Cake, Sound of the Beast, A Man A Fish, Salome’s Clothes, Gas Girls, Give It Up, The Smell of Horses, and The First Stone. Works for young audiences include the META-nominated Reaching For Starlight, The Chariot, and Rabbit King of Kenya. Opera libretti include Forbidden (Afarin Mansouri/Tapestry Opera) and Oubliette (Ivan Barbotin/Tapestry Opera). She is co-editor with Yvette Nolan of the Playwrights Canada Press Refractions anthologies, and editor of Indian Act: Residential School Plays.

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      Cake - Donna-Michelle St. Bernard

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      Also by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard

      Gas Girls

      Indian Act: Residential School Plays (editor)

      A Man A Fish

      Refractions: Scenes (editor with Yvette Nolan)

      Refractions: Solo (editor with Yvette Nolan)

      Cake

      Donna-Michelle St. Bernard

      Playwrights Canada Press

      Toronto

      Cake © Copyright 2019 by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard

      First edition: March 2019

      Cover art, Slip Into Still Waters, by Mary Wong, www.marywong.ca

      Author photo © Denise Grant

      Playwrights Canada Press

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      Michael Petrasek, Kensington Literary Representation

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      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Title: Cake / by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard.

      Names: St. Bernard, Donna-Michelle, author.

      Description: First edition. | A play.

      Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20190058382 | Canadiana (ebook) 20190058404 | ISBN 9781770919709 (softcover) | ISBN 9781770919716 (PDF) | ISBN 9781770919723 (EPUB) | ISBN 9781770919730 (Kindle)

      Classification: LCC PS8637.A4525 C35 2019 | DDC C812/.6 — dc23

      Playwrights Canada Press acknowledges that we operate on land, which, for thousands of years, has been the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, Huron-Wendat, Anishinaabe, Métis, and Haudenosaunee peoples. Today, this meeting place is home to many Indigenous peoples from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work and play here.

      We acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts — which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country — the Ontario Arts Council (OAC), Ontario Creates, and the Government of Canada for our publishing activities.

      The Canada Council for the ArtsThe Government of CanadaOntario CreatesThe Ontario Arts Council

      To the front-line folx at organizations like Social Action (saction.org) and Afrika Arts Kollective (@afrikaartskolle), who move with integrity toward a better way to be, together. To Mom, Kern and great God Almighty for contantly holding me up in this work.

      Contents

      Foreword by Nikki Shaffeeullah

      Characters

      Cake

      Moonsong

      Quo

      Set-up

      Tease

      Company

      Waste

      Interest

      Femifore

      Engagement

      Anything?

      Delivery

      Tease

      Advancement

      Counsel

      Token

      Intervention

      Snitch

      Entrenchment

      Embargo

      The Moral Is

      Capitulation

      Afterword by Kern Albert

      Acknowledgements

      About the Author

      Landmarks

      Cover

      Title

      Copyright Page

      Dedication

      Start of Text

      Table of Contents

      Foreword by Nikki Shaffeeullah

      Moonsong

      Quo

      Set-up

      Tease

      Company

      Waste

      Interest

      Femifore

      Engagement

      Anything?

      Delivery

      Tease

      Advancement

      Counsel

      Token

      Intervention

      Snitch

      Entrenchment

      Embargo

      The Moral Is

      Capitulation

      Afterword by Kern Albert

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