Up the Garden Path & The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God
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Up the Garden Path & The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God

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Up the Garden Path & The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God

About this book

In Up the Garden Path, Rosa, a young Barbadian seamstress, offers to pose as her brother to go to the Niagara Region in Ontario to work. There, she meets an aspiring actress obsessed with Joan of Arc, the ghost of a black Loyalist soldier who wants to die and a boss who can't keep the starlings away from his failing vineyard. Finding it impossible to ignore their demands, but not wanting to be found out and sent home, Rosa has to stop and figure out what she really wants instead of what everyone around her needs.Based on Bernard Shaw's short story, The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God follows a black girl who is abandoned by a white missionary for asking too many questions. Taking matters into her own hands, the Black Girl sets off to find out who or what God really is. Along the way she meets a number of characters who have very different views on God, but the Black Girl's unrelenting questions create conflict, and in the end she's forced to make her own decisions on God and her search.

Information

Publisher
Playwrights Canada Press
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781770918269
eBook ISBN
9781770918276
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Canadian Drama
Index
Literature
The 
Adventures 
of 
the 
Black 
Girl 
in 
Her 
Search 
for 
God 
| 
155
SĂŹ
.
*
Bene
BENE
.
**
Don’t 
forget 
glutton 
and 
winebibber!
THE
CONJURER
: 
And 
now 
wearing 
this 
stupid 
costume 
and 
posing 
in 
this 
ridiculous 
position!
THE
ARTIST
: 
(to 
THE
CONJURER
) 
Grande, 
GRANDE
!
***
We 
just 
need . . . 
ah 
ha! 
PiÚ 
sangue!
****
(to 
the 
BLACK
GIRL
) 
You. 
Make 
yourself 
useful 
and 
blood 
him 
up—oh 
and 
straighten 
his 
wig.
BLACK
GIRL
: 
He 
wears 
a 
wig?
THE
ARTIST
: 
Lui 
è 
un 
tizio 
asiatico—
*****
THE
CONJURER
: 
Shhhhh!
e 
BLACK
GIRL
inspects 
THE
CONJURER
closely.
BLACK
GIRL
: 
Hey 
wait 
a 
second . . .
e 
BLACK
GIRL
pulls 
THE
CONJURER
’s 
wig 
and 
sunglasses 
off.
THE
CONJURER
: 
No!
BLACK
GIRL
: 
Why 
you 
dressed 
up 
as 
a 
white 
guy?
* 
Yes.
** 
Good, 
good.
*** 
Great, 
great!
**** 
More 
blood!
***** 
He’s 
an 
Asian 
guy— 
Just 
a 
reminder 
that 
the 
conjurer 
can 
be 
played 
by 
any 
person 
of 
colour 
who 
can 
pass 
for 
white 
in 
sunglasses 
and 
a 
wig. 
If 
you 
choose 
someone 
who 
is 
not 
Asian, 
feel 
free 
to 
change 
the 
line 
accordingly.

Table of contents

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  2. Also by Lisa Codrington
  3. Up the Garden Path
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  5. About the Author
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