Montreal’s Black Theatre Workshop (BTW), an award winning English-speaking theatre and Canada’s longest running Black theatre company, is back for its 55th season.

On friday night, they unveiled the programming for this year’s theatre productions, the cohorts in this year’s artist mentorship program as well as introducing everyone to the first-ever recipient of the 2025 Jacklin Webb Theatre Scholarship.

Always ones to encourage dialogue and honest representation of Black culture and society, they’ve even named this season after the famous Jamaican patois word “Tallawah”.

“Tallawah is an idiom that comes from Jamaica, which is where I’m from, and there’s a phrase that says, ‘we likkle, but we tallawah’, which means we’re small, but we’re mighty, we’re small, but don’t underestimate us,”

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