TY - JOUR AU - Keleta-Mae, Naila PY - 2018/12/21 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Canadian Theatre Made for Black Women JF - Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théâtrales au Canada JA - TRIC VL - 39 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/TRIC/article/view/28778 SP - AB - For close to two decades Trey Anthony has carved out a successful career as a published and produced playwright in Canada in a national theatre landscape where few playwrights enjoy sustained success. This is, in part, because Anthony is also an entrepreneur who identified Black women in Canada as a financially viable and lucrative target market and she has consistently self-produced content that is geared specifically to them. This article begins with the production history, critical response, and box office response to Anthony’s play <em>How Black Mothers Say I Love You</em>. It continues with an analysis of the play’s content and characters as representative of staging Black female life and it concludes with a contemplation of what Anthony’s successful cultivation of a Black female audience in Canada suggests about Canadian theatre. ER -