The Africa TrilogyVolcano Theatre - World Premiere

Three playwrights and three directors from six countries on three continents; eleven performers and a production team from around the world: together, they offer an unprecedented theatrical look at the meeting of East and West, from three very different points of view.

Harrowing and outrageously funny, Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God, by Germany’s Roland Schimmelpfennig, probes western liberal guilt and its intersection with a massive pandemic as two couples pick apart the mistakes of their pasts. The emotional and intellectual connections of present-day globalization are the focus of American playwright Christina Anderson’s swirling and magnetic GLO; while Kenya’s Binyavanga Wainaina provokes and delights with Shine Your Eye, an exploration of the notion of territory in the Internet age, and a high-tech look at the generation now shaping Africa’s future.

All three parts of this world premiere, commissioned by Luminato from Toronto’s award-winning Volcano Theatre, pose crucial questions: how do we see and imagine each other – and what is the human reality of a global relationship?

Special ASL (American Sign Language) interpreted performances on June 11th at 7pm and June 19th at 1pm. Please note that there is limited availability of tickets in the signing section. To order tickets in the signing section with Ticketmaster, please use code ASLAFR.