What do I have to do to get some disrespect?

The headline is a quote from late in the second half of Zaiba Baig’s double header Kainchee Lagaa + Jhooti: The Begging Brown Bitch Plays which opened on Thursday night at Buddies in Bad Times in a production directed by Tawiah Ben M’Carthy for House of Beida Inc.  The plays are loosely linked in that both deal one way or another with queerness and Pakistani-Canadian identity and experience.

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Roberto Zucco

Bernard-Marie Koltès’ Roberto Zucco (translated by Martin Crimp) is currently playing at Buddies in Bad Times in a production directed by ted witzel. It’s a piece from the 1980s, written as Koltès was dying of AIDS and set in the mean streets of the less salubrious part of a European city, perhaps Paris.

Roberto Zucco_photo of Daniel MacIvor and Jakob Ehman by Jeremy Mimnagh_set and costume by Michelle Tracey, lighting by Logan Raju Cracknell

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