Cafe Daughter is a one-person show about a young girl, Yvette Wong, growing up in Saskatchewan during the 50′s and 60′s. Yvette is unique, her mother is Cree and her father is Chinese. It’s a story about a girl fighting loneliness, isolation and racism as she carves out her own place in the world.
The play was inspired by the life of Dr. Lilian E. Quan Dyck. She’s a well-known neuro-psychiatrist and a current member of Canada’s Senate.
It was recently produced by Whitehorse’s Gwaandak Theatre, starring PJ Prudat and directed by Yvette Nolan. It toured eight communities in the Yukon in May, 2011. It won three Bob Couchman awards for outstanding play, outstanding female performance and outstanding direction.
Here’s a review of the Gwaandak production from What’s Up Yukon: Honest Talk Café.