Mother and Canada West Indian

Factory Theatre: The award-winning playwright behind the theatrical smash "Da Kink in My Hair" drew on the stories of her mother, Angela, and late grandmother Maude for her new play, which uses Canada West Indian Domestic Scheme as its historical backdrop, according to Metro News. Under the plan introduced in the mid-1950s, eligible black women aged 18 to 35 were permitted to enter Canada, primarily from Jamaica and Barbados. It crosses over class," Anthony said in an interview ahead of the play world premiere Thursday at the Factory Theatre in Toronto."This is a mother that is trying her best to love her child, and her daughter does not think that her mother loved her in the way that she needed to be loved — and I think all of us can relate to that."We all have that sort of conflict at some point in our lives.... Our mothers aren't the people that we want them to be, and as mothers sometimes, your children aren't the people that you expected them to be.""How Black Mothers Say I Love You" documents the story of Daphne , who has left her children in Jamaica and journeyed to Canada for work. Following a year as a domestic servant, they were awarded landed immigrant status and later allowed to apply for citizenship. As a result, the denials made it impossible for parents to send for their kids, leaving many families devastated, Anthony noted."Not a lot was really documented about what happened to these families, what happened to these mothers," she said."I really wanted to explore in this play the dynamics of what makes a good mother. Since one of the requirements of the scheme was for women to have no children, many lied about being mothers. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.