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  Sandy Daley's new play asks: Whose Vagina Is It, Really. Now playing in Toronto festival By Stephen Weir Author, Playwright, Movie Star and Actress Sandy Daley is the first to agree that the name of her new play  Whose Vagina Is It, Really?  really does  garners a lot of attention, most of it good. The play opens tomorrow (Friday) afternoon at the Al Green Theatre in Toronto’s Annex district as one of the showcase plays in this year’s Fringe Festival . “I will say that the title does catch the attention of male (theatres goers), the women get it immediately,” Daley told the Caribbean Camera yesterday. “Black, Brown, Asia and Caucasian the message is the same. Women don’t put themselves first. I constant remind that you must home in what matters – themselves. Don’t keep doing everything for everyone else (like husbands and other make figures).” “Whose Vagina Is It, Really?" is set in a church and focuses on women and the pressures placed upon them by society. ...

There is a Rose in this Canadian Harlem Review by Stephen Weir   Harlem Duet, currently on stage at the Tarragon Theatre is attracting much attention. It is selling out most nights of its Toronto six-week run. There is nothing new about this 21-year old drama. Certainly not with the script which was written by Guyanese/Ja maican/Canadian Djanet Sears back in 1998. Nor  is there a new message found in the plot line  of the North American Black experience. It is a story of loyalty, revenge, love, madness and, of course, racism depress ingly repeated over three  generations in Harlem and the Deep South .  Virgilia Griffith So why is Harlem Duets packing the mid-town Tarragon Theatre these days?  It is the acting – the passion that some of Toronto’s best known Caribbean Canadian actors bring to the stage in a telling of age-old social problems that still impact the community today.   The standout star is  Virgilia Griffith ...