Street Voices
September 27, 2021
In Conversation With Abigail Whitney, Director Of Les Frères
Tomorrow is the opening of the play, Les Frères, which is a play directed by Abigail Whitney and written by Sandra A. Daley-Sharif.
Les Frères is a play inspired by Lorainne Hansberry's Les Blancs and tells the story of three estranged brothers of Haitian descent, who come home to Harlem for their dying father.
Whitney came across the play through a friend who found it on a website called New Play Exchange. Her friend then submitted an application in her name to the Drama Societies at the University of Toronto (UoFT) to direct the play. Unfortunately, it didn’t get accepted, but they didn’t stop there. When another society was accepting submissions, they applied again, and were accepted.
