Writer Fatuma Adar thinks everyone should have the freedom to be mediocre
Fatuma Adar talks to Q's Tom Power about her new one-woman show, She's Not Special, which explores the pressures of representing your entire community as a racialized artist.
In a Q interview, Adar talks about her new one-woman show, She’s Not Special
What do you do after your debut play takes the Canadian theatre world by storm? For Fatuma Adar, the creator of the award-winning musical Dixon Road, you make a funny and intensely personal one-woman show about the pressures to embody Black excellence. Adar sat down with Q's Tom Power to talk about her new show, She's Not Special (which is being called "an irreverent ode to mediocrity"), and the joy of making art that doesn't need to tick any boxes.
The full interview with Fatuma Adar is available on our podcast, Q with Tom Power. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
Interview with Fatuma Adar produced by Jennifer Warren.