Moonlight Schooner

A Necessary Angel Theatre Company Production in Association with Canadian Stage and Tarragon Theatre

A Caribbean sailor's search for belonging

It’s May Day 1958. A small group of Black sailors are stranded on the island of St. Kitts after a terrible storm. As the looming unknowns of imperialism threaten their dreams of a better future, the sailors indulge in a responsibility-free night on the town.

In Moonlight Schooner, Dora Award-winning playwright Kanika Ambrose shares an evocative tale about the systemic and deliberate breaking of Black men by colonial forces during the Windrush Generation, and the casualties left behind.

Moonlight Schooner is the highly anticipated third collaboration between celebrated playwright Kanika Ambrose and director Sabryn Rock, following our place and Truth.