Through its six co-creators — along with Javanfar, the cast includes Lisa Karen Cox, Maggie Huculak, Amy Nostbakken, Norah Sadava and Cheyenne Scott — Now You See Her touches upon the issues you might expect: women who physically make themselves disappear through eating disorders, women who are invisible to male colleagues except as sex objects, women who don’t see themselves reflected in society, women who don’t have the right to vote, women who don’t feel safe walking alone in the dark, Canada’s missing and murdered Indigenous girls and women. Six women slowly come into focus on an empty stage at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre as the stage lights rise on Now You See Her. As a production that explores how women disappear, it’s a fitting opening. Her lines transition from “As a Black woman” to “As the Black woman” to “As this Black woman,” and Cox puts herself front and centre, adding an immense weight to the scene we’ve just watched, and avoiding the trap of the “token” Black actor having to represent her entire race. Do them a favour and look at them.

Source: thestar October 19, 2018 18:45 UTC