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Winner of the 2024 Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding New Play
When two Filipinx women meet at work, it’s instant butterflies. A is a loud and proud queer femme, born in Canada and longing to connect with her culture, while B is an astute, enigmatic intern from the Philippines, yearning for intimacy. Their attraction accelerates in no time—sharing lunches, texting, flirting, kilig to the max! But looming over their relationship is the painful reality that B must return home in just two short months. That’s why they’re determined not to waste a single moment, making the next sixty days the romance of a lifetime. But how long before their blissful bubble bursts?
Like an irresistible teleserye, Kisapmata is an enchanting and delightfully cheesy queer romantic comedy about the woman who got away but never left your heart. Bittersweet and beautifully nuanced, this love letter to queerness and Filipinx culture embraces the beauty of fleeting moments and the courage of letting go.
“Kisapmata is a testament and an embodiment of how Filipinos love—this duality of loud and grand gestures and these quiet sacrifices made in the silence of obligations and responsibilities. It reminds the audience of the truth that love knows no bounds.”
—Dianne Miranda, The Gauntlet
Born and raised in the Philippines, Bianca Miranda is a fat, queer Filipino theatre artist who is grateful to be living and working in Moh’kins’tsis, Treaty 7 Territory (Calgary, Alberta). She is Producer at Downstage, “theatre that creates conversation around current issues.” As a theatre-maker and playwright, their works most often start from a personal place and examine the intersections of her identities, born out of the necessity to tell stories of her communities that are under-represented on stage. She is the writer of Kisapmata (Chromatic Theatre and Lunchbox Theatre) and co-writer and performer of The F Word (Downstage, presented by Alberta Theatre Projects) with Keshia Cheesman. They believe in the transformative power of storytelling.