PLAYS

UMZANSTI

I’m lost, yo. We just heard your speech. You talked about a bunch of different women ... Alice Eagly ... Ericka Hart ... Arundhati Roy, Warsan Shire. Who else? Hillary Clinton.

UMZANSTI and 77

That’s what did it.

UMZANSTI

Yup. Absolutely.


And even though you didn’t mention Hillary’s ‘super predators’ thing ... you did go in on her in your speech tonight and not everyone cyan manage dem deh truths deh.

UMZANSTI

Yup. That’s definitely what did your secret admirer in.

SUNIFYA

She’s not my secret admirer.

UMZANSTI

(Laughing) Oh, but she is, Sunifya, she most certainly is and she is furious ... oh, and in such a good low-key passive aggressive way. (Reading the message) “You owe me!”

Excerpt from Naila Keleta-Mae’s “Writing With Sound in What We Deserve.” Canadian Theatre Review, University of Toronto Press: Toronto. 2021: (184) 39-41.