Daddy wants to win the lottery, Mommy is still bitter about getting knocked up at twenty, Simeon has war-related PTSD, and Rachel just wants to move out of her parents’ place—but first there are a few things she’s got to get off her chest. It’s Jamaica’s Independence Day, Toronto is sweltering, and the jackhammers gentrifying the neighbourhood have put everyone on edge. Andrea Scott’s Get That Hope looks into the heart of a Jamaican-Canadian family on a day when everything changes.
About the Author
Andrea Scott‘s play Eating Pomegranates Naked won the RBC Arts Professional Award, and was named Outstanding Production at the 2013 SummerWorks Festival. Better Angels: A Parable won the SummerWorks Award for Outstanding Production, and was published in 2018. Don’t Talk to Me Like I’m Your Wife won the Cayle Chernin Award for theatre, and was produced at SummerWorks in 2016. 2019 saw her co-written play with Nick Green, Every Day She Rose wow audiences at Buddies in Bad Times. Her play about Viola Desmond, Controlled Damage, had its sold-out world premiere at Neptune Theatre in 2020. Get That Hope will have its World Premiere at the Stratford Festival in 2024 at the Studio Theatre. She currently resides in West Hollywood, California, working for Disney.
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