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In this daring and disruptive double bill, Zaiba Baig dismantles the white saviour complex and demolishes the fourth wall with two subversive tales told by unreliable narrators.
In Kainchee Lagaa, the lives of two estranged siblings intertwine across space and time. Billo, a tandoori-chicken-loving sex worker, is saving up to run away with someone special, while her brother Arsalan is haunted by their family’s traumatic past. As memory and myth collide during a long-awaited reunion, nothing is certain, and no one is innocent. In Jhooti, a trans woman on the run, carrying a plastic bag full of her belongings, pleads for protection. But soon her story unravels into a dangerous web of destruction.
Together, these explosive dramas plunge into the multidimensional depths of brown trans women teetering on a tightrope between truth and survival. Toying with the audience at every turn, Kainchee Lagaa & Jhooti: The Begging Brown Bitch Plays are an essential theatrical intervention that promises to leave no one unscathed.
Zaiba Baig (she/they) is a writer, actor, and producer for stage and screen, as well as a workshop developer and facilitator for art-focused nonprofits. Baig’s published works include their first play, Acha Bacha (2020, nominated for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize from the Writer’s Trust of Canada), and an anthology of monologues they co-edited for queer/trans artists titled This Is Beyond (2023). Baig was a co-creator, executive producer, and lead actor in their Peabody Award–winning series Sort Of (2021–2023), for which Baig received the Canadian Screen Award for comedy writing and performance, as well as a Gotham Award nomination for performance in a new series. Baig has facilitated creative writing and playwriting programs for trans artists, BIPOC artists, and trans youth, including Trans Gemmes (2019–2020), Paprika Festival’s Playwrights Unit (2019–2023), Being Me (2023–), and Dialogue Dolls (2023–).