Bondage

<p>BONDAGE takes place Pre-Emancipation on a small island in the Caribbean.</p><p><br></p><p>With the onset of puberty Zuri must use her wits to outsmart the twisted desires of a drunken master and a sadistic mistress on a haunted plantation. Hierarchies of race and gender collide in this AfroSurreal tale of an enslaved girl who dares to follow her own instincts toward liberation by any means.</p><p><br></p><p>  ...the drama thrills partly because it's still so rare to see genuine bravery in theatrical depictions of race partly because Finch has such a singular mode of expression.</p><p>Lily Janiak sfgate.com</p><p><br></p><p>  Finch's dialogue is potent beautifully expressed and mysterious especially in its dreamlike mystical moments. There's some haunting imagery in the play that gives it a ritualistic almost fairy-tale-like quality at times. More than anything though it's a tense and unsettling piece that plays with race gender family and power dynamics in provocative and sometimes brutal ways.</p><p>Sam Hurwitt marinij.com</p><p><br></p><p>  Blending blunt prose with lush intricate poetry Finch does more than put lyrical words in the mouths of her richly rendered characters; she uses that language to create an atmosphere of off-kilter dreaminess...</p><p>David Templeton northbaystageandscreen.com</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>