“A man earns. However little, however nefariously, he earns.” Oba is holding on to the last threads of his old life and is determined to maintain what he can by any means necessary. Cake is a story about the things we use, how we are used, and what happens when we are all used up. Written by Governor General’s Award nominee DM St. Bernard the play is a stark and poetic musing on the nature of survival. Cake is a part of the 54ology: St. Bernard’s commitment to create one performance work drawn from each country in Africa. The show is written in reference to Niger’s uranium mining.
November 17-December 3, 2017.
Theatre Passe Muraille – Backspace.
Toronto, ON.
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- Cake on the Toronto Theatre Database.
- Cake on Theatre Passe Muraille’s website.
- New Harlem Productions’ website.
- Cake Casting Announcement – Intermission Magazine.
- Speaking her mind is an ‘exhausting honour’ for playwright Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
- There Is A Man – Intermission Magazine.
- Donna-Michelle St. Bernard’s Cake an expressionistic parable of colonialism – Toronto Star Review
- Review: Cake – Intermission Magazine.
- Review: Cake – Mooney On Theatre.
- Review: Cake – Stage Door.
- Review: Cake – Now Magazine.
- Our Favourite Shows of 2017 – Intermission Magazine.
- Cake – Playwright’s Canada Press.
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Heather Bellingham 