The Half-Sibling Play

About the Show

Growing up in separate households, half-siblings Kweku and Amoaa have never been close. But when their father dies unexpectedly, they travel together from Brooklyn to Ghana to pay their respects and claim their birthright. A play about sisters, brothers, and absent fathers, THE HALF-SIBLING PLAY delves into the mystery of family and what it means to come home.

Content Warning

Blood, Self-Harm

Director's Note 

To me,The Half-Sibling Play is a love letter to those of us navigating how to process grief. Grief for those we’ve loved - sometimes at our own expense, and for those we never had a chance to love. Like the ocean washing the land’s shores, healing happens in waves, it is circular, disorienting, messy - rarely linear. This play is a prayer for the children who grew believing they were not enough or deserving of love, care, forgiveness. May these children find their lost siblings in this world, who understand their demons like nobody else will ever understand, and with each other’s support, begin to release some of that pain to make room for each other

The Cast

About the Director

Ludmila de Brito is a Brazilian director of Indigenous descent who loves telling stories. Her heart steers towards politically urgent work and plays that ask us to transcend the conditioning of surviving. "When do we start living?"