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A Cloud of Ink in the Shape of Her

by Nathaniel Hanula-James

Dramaturgy by Sadie Berlin


Toronto, 1950. Halloween. Gladys Potter, scientific-luminary-in-the-making, swans into a gay bar for the very first time. She’s dressed as a cuttlefish. No one gets it. Also, she might be the only Black person there.

Toronto, 2023. Dolores, an archivist at a queer museum, stumbles upon the story of Gladys Potter. Raised colourblind by a white father and Black mother, Dolores yearns for a deeper connection to Blackness. When a mysterious being named Idontknowher appears, Dolores follows them down, down, down, into the Underworld, determined to meet Gladys. But all knowledge comes with a price. 

Sometimes, that price is the last remaining ticket to a Mariah Carey concert.

Sometimes, it’s a meeting with your ancestors. Every. Single. One.

A Cloud of Ink in the Shape of Her was originally developed in our National Queer & Trans Playwriting Unit.


A New Commission

A Zee Zee Theatre commission of a new work by Sunny Drake. Playwright of our 2021-2022 Season production Men Express Their Feelings.

Zee Zee Theatre acknowledges that we live and work on the unceded traditional and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.