The Sankofa Trilogy: benu
Tue, Sep 30
|Toronto
Welcome to d’bi.young anitafrika’s virtuosic three-week repertory production celebrating the 20th anniversary of the critically acclaimed Sankofa Trilogy featuring the plays blood.claat, benu, and word! sound! powah!
Time & Location
Sep 30, 2025, 8:00 PM – Oct 05, 2025, 2:00 PM
Toronto, 1115 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M6J 1J1, Canada
About the event
Celebrate 20 years of groundbreaking theatre with d’bi.young anitafrika’s Sankofa Trilogy—blood.claat, benu, and word! sound! powah!
Starring d’bi.young anitafrika, this production presents a new vision on the classic works, with each play running for one week and all three plays running in rep for a marathon culminating weekend featuring a dancehall session at the end of Saturday night (Oct 11, 2025).
The three biomyth monodramas follow the lives of three generations of Sankofa womyn—Mudgu, Sekesu, and Benu, whose stories traverse the intersections of gender, race, class, cultural legacy, hxrstory and the presence and power of the Yoruba Orishas Yemoja, Osun and Oya.