uWaterloo Drama presents on love

'Between hope and despair'

Created by uWaterloo Drama’s own Professor Naila Keleta-Mae in 2008, on love was further developed by uWaterloo Drama students during their Performance Creation course with Keleta-Mae in the fall. 

on love is a play about love and legacy; it is a Canadian story about the historic site in St. Armand, Quebec called Nigger Rock.  In the 19th Century, black people – slaves, free tradesmen, and travellers – lived in St. Armand and buried their dead at the base of an enormous dark-coloured bolder that was, and still is, called Nigger Rock.  The bolder sits on private land.  It is not officially recognized as a cemetery.

Faculty collaborators, Bill Chesney (set/props) and Sharon E. Secord (costumes), have worked with local designer Kirsten Watt (lighting) and Montreal designer Pohanna Pyne Feinberg (sound) to transform our small black box theatre into a space where past and present collide.

Featuring a diverse cast of uWaterloo students, on love is a moving piece about the complexities of race, gender, history, and heteronormativity told through a cast of eight who explore love’s capacity to be a “fine balance between hope and despair.” (Rohinton Mistry)

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