Angélique’s Toronto debut shows how Lorena Gale’s drama was ahead of its time GlobeArts
“And in 1734, a Negro slave set fire to the City of Montreal and was hanged.”, the late Montreal-born playwright Lorena Gale’s 1998 sprawling drama now having a belated, blistering Toronto premiere at the Factory Theatre.
Gale’s “then is now; now is then” approach forces the audience to not see the past as the past. Graboshas, brilliantly, plays François not as some historical monster, but like any number of insecure men you know today who need to make as much money as possible, and then have no idea what to do with it.
We know the play will end with a fire, but how we get to that conclusion is often surprising. Other characters include an enslaved black man named César and an indentured white French worker named Claude .
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