MANDIELA’S DUB ARIA - OBSIDIAN/FACTORY WORLD PREMIERE

who knew grannie: a dub aria, written and directed by ahdri zhina mandiela and produced by Obsidian Theatre Company in association with Factory Theatre, has its world premiere March 18 – April 4, 2010 (with previews on March 13–14 and 16–17). who knew grannie: a dub aria, sponsored by TD Bank Financial Group, is about four cousins who reunite for the burial of their grandmother, the woman who raised them. They go back to Jamaica and reclaim their past and discover who they are through childhood games, songs and powerful memories. On the wings of the symbolic sankofa bird, the cousins go on a powerful cathartic journey full of joy, laughter and pain to the music of the heart and the drums of their homeland. Factory Artistic Director Ken Gass says that the award-winning mandiela “… has a unique muscular poetic voice that drives this imaginative and very theatrical new form, the dub aria.” Visit http://www.obsidian-theatre.com/ and www.factorytheatre.ca.