This week, Natasha Nadir chats with Montreal-based playwright deidre “d-lishus” walton to talk about her play, 8x10.
In 8x10 by deidre “d-lishus” walton, a Black woman grapples with a surreal spiritual experience that leaves her vulnerable to the machinations of the mental health system. Which version of reality will prevail?
Content Forecast: Involuntary institutionalization, discussions of suicide.
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Waveforms was produced by Realwheels Theatre with the co-operation of UBCP/ACTRA.
Cast:
JULIA ABREU as GIRL & DEITY
SARAH PEGUERO as GODDESS & ANCESTOR
NYX DEBOGORSKI as FRIEND & ORISHA
KAITLYN YOTT as STAGE DIRECTIONS
Host: Natasha Nadir
Playwright: deidre “d-lishus” walton
Original Compositions and Sound Design: Finka Wood
Production Management: Jordyn Wood
Poster Graphic Design: Samantha Walters
This podcast is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Province of British Columbia, the City of Vancouver, and the Hamber Foundation.
This production was recorded and broadcast from the unceded and ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations at GGRP Sound Studios, as well as remotely from the unceded Indigenous lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation.
