Creative Team
​Marcia Johnson - Playwright
Cherissa Richards - Director
Rachel Forbes - Set, Props, and Costume Designer
Anika Binding - Associate Designer
Scott Henderson - Lighting Designer
Paul De Gurse - Sound Designer/Composer
Zahra Larche - Stage Manager
Samantha Sage - Assistant Stage Manager
Dialect Coach (Kenya) - Pete N. Bailey
Dialect Coach (British) - Tom Soares
Kenyan Cultural Consultant - Mũkonzi Mũsyoki
Production Dramaturg - Emma Welham

Cast
Bola Aiyeola - Mercy/Patricia
Ava Darrach-Gagnon - Elizabeth/Robin/Ashley/Woman
Cameron Grant - Montague/Steven
Reena Jolly - Faith/Tia
Tom Keenan - Talbot/Maurice/Man

Photo by Joey Senft Photography

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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 on a TV drama series about the British royal family – while also pursuing a writing project of her own. Is there a deeper connection between these two seemingly disparate worlds? An ingenious contemporary drama that keeps us guessing as it explores issues of colonialism, nationalism and the question of who gets to have a voice.

Production Photos by Joey Senft Photopgraphy

Review

Winnipeg Free Press: "Director Cherissa Richards deftly navigates the often-dizzying shifts between time and place..."