About the Play:

Better Angels: A Parable and Eating Pomegranates Naked is a two-play collection of full-length dramas by Andrea Scott. Better Angels: A Parable is an immigrant story of a young woman brought from Ghana to Canada as a nanny. Eating Pomegranates Naked forces us to grapple with some deep questions.

In Better Angels: A Parable, Akosua Mansa leaves Ghana to work for Greg and Leila Tate as a domestic in the tony suburbs of a metropolitan city. But she soon finds herself trapped in an untenable situation: like more than forty million people, she's become trapped in modern-day slavery. Taking cues from the spider god, Anansi, Akosua will take her destiny into her own hands. (Premiered in 2015 at Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto during the SummerWorks Theatre and was recognized as Outstanding New Play; Cast: 2 women, 1 man)

What people say:

"Tight, taut writing… Better Angels tells a hard story with style and a twist." — CIUT-FM

Eating Pomegranates Naked examines two couples and their single frenemy as they scratch the surface of their relationships over too much wine. How honest do you have to be with our partners if the truth will infect the relationship? Sometimes we are only as safe as our secrets. (Premiered in 2013 at the Lower Ossington Theatre in Toronto during the SummerWorks Festival where it was named Outstanding Production; Cast: 3 women, 2 men)

What people say:

"Brassy, fearless, and pitch-black… Scott's provocatively titled drama concerns two couples, one of them biracial, and adds religion to the incendiary ingredients." — The Globe and Mail

About the Playwright:

Andrea Scott is is an award-winning Toronto-based actor, writer, and producer originally from London, Ontario. She is a graduate of the Artist Producer Training Program run by Generator/Theatre Ontario and has been in the playwright units at Obsidian Theatre, Cahoots Theatre, Roseneath Theatre, Factory Theatre, Theatre Direct, Nightwood, and Eastern Front Theatre.