blood.claat Written and performed by
d’bi.young.anitafrika Directed by
Weyni Mengesha Theatre Passe Muraille (Toronto)
d’bi.young fuses theatre and dub poetry in this one ‘womban’ story of blood. Mudgu comes of age, struggles with her first menstruation, chafes against her grandmother, endures her overly-religious aunt, nurtures a crush on her strutting neighbour and morphs into Yemoja, an African goddess who creates the world with her blood. But it is her mother – who lives in Canada, a world away from Mudgu – who teaches her the importance of the monthly blood claat (or blood cloth), with its ancient healing connections.
