The Fig Tree

Part of Heritage Fair 2023
World Première
An imaginative contemporary fable, exploring the Canadian immigration experience and what Canada’s cultural mosaic can mean.

A fig tree and a spider meet in a garage, strike up a conversation and begin a friendship. Through their friendship the spider learns of the fig tree’s long and eventful journey to Canada, which through Brazilian/Canadian playwright Patricia Nacamoto’s imagination becomes a brilliant and playful metaphor of the immigration experience.

Written by Patricia Nacamoto
Directed by Adam Corrigan Holowitz
Performed by Patricia Nacamoto and Shaun Hessey
Dramaturgy by Kydra Ryan

LIVE PERFORMANCE
February 18 at 12:00 PM
February 18 at 2:00 PM
Running Time: 30 Minutes

Location: London Public Library Central
(Stevenson Hunt Room B)
251 Dundas Street
Free Admission

AlvegoRoot acknowledges that we create work on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak and Attawandaron peoples as well as nations both recorded and unrecorded who have been caretakers of this land for time immemorial. These lands are connected with the London Township and Sombra Treaties of 1796 and the Dish with One Spoon Covenant Wampum.