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Up the Garden Path & The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God
Up the Garden Path & The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God
Up the Garden Path & The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God
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Up the Garden Path & The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God

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From the author of Cast Iron comes two plays that feature young black women who suddenly find themselves navigating unfamiliar territory on their own. As they embark on journeys from the only homes they’ve ever known, they’re challenged to think for themselves and to fight for what they want and believe in.

In Up the Garden Path, Rosa, a young Barbadian seamstress, offers to pose as her brother to go to the Niagara Region in Ontario to work. There, she meets an aspiring actress obsessed with Joan of Arc, the ghost of a black Loyalist soldier who wants to die and a boss who can’t keep the starlings away from his failing vineyard. Finding it impossible to ignore their demands, but not wanting to be found out and sent home, Rosa has to stop and figure out what she really wants instead of what everyone around her needs.

Based on Bernard Shaw’s short story, The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God follows a black girl who is abandoned by a white missionary for asking too many questions. Taking matters into her own hands, the Black Girl sets off to find out who or what God really is. Along the way she meets a number of characters who have very different views on God, but the Black Girl’s unrelenting questions create conflict, and in the end she’s forced to make her own decisions on God and her search.

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Release dateOct 17, 2017
ISBN9781770918283
Up the Garden Path & The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God
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Lisa Codrington

Lisa Codrington is a Toronto-­based actor and writer. Her writing has been produced in Toronto, Niagara-­on-­the-­Lake, Winnipeg and Barbados, and has been published by Playwrights Canada Press, McGraw-­Hill Ryerson and in Canadian Theatre Review. Select writing credits include The Aftermath, The Colony and Cast Iron, which was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama. Lisa is a recipient of the Carol Bolt Award for Playwrights and the K.M. Hunter Theatre Award. She has been playwright-­in-­residence at a number of theatres, including Canadian Stage, Nightwood Theatre, the Blyth Festival and the Shaw Festival.

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