Tell My Puppy I'm Coming Home

Tell My Puppy I’m Coming Home is the lesser told story of documented immigration.

On the outset, the show is a simple tale of a boi trying to return to her ride or die four-legged child. On further exploration, the story is a complex narrative of a broken immigration system, queerness and belonging, family, reconciliation, departure, and just a touch of absurdity.

This one-human show is a biographical feature about a documented queer immigrant who despite her best efforts is forced to return “home”. Since she last visited eight years ago, much has changed. A now powerful community leader, she returns to a family that no longer knows her, a country that has never accepted her, and a childhood whose scars return when her feet touch the land.

A production about family, precarity, and victorious return, this show weaves in and out of poetry, narrative, and humour in its exploration of displacement, immigration, and the diaspora experience.

Set to give audiences an immersive experience, attendees will enter a space that is part immigration paperwork, part family history, set to the backdrop of the author's living room in 2018.

Host or Publisher Poetry is Activism