Still, readers will especially look forward to the series of Writerji stories' that form Part II of the collection. Sears, who came to Canada from England at the age of fifteen, resides in Toronto and is a singer, actor, director, and playwright. She says that she writes to survive racism. Unlike Shakespeare's tragedy, in Sears's play there is hope within all the pain, and this hope is suggested in the naming of the main characters as well as in the ending where a comforting new father-daughter relationship is found. The voices of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Paul Robeson, Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson and a few others variously inaugurate each act and scene and reinforce the complexity and illusiveness of so-called blackness' while linking the public with the private.
Blues music creates tension between the blackness and the whiteness.
The motif of Othello's handkerchief is complicated by another motif, that of a human zygote supposedly frozen and stored in Billie's fridge. The high-point of the play is the curse that Billie pronounces on the black man who has betrayed her for a white woman. Billie's curse invokes an entire cultural past of racial suffering and victimization to which she adds her own. The play has its moments of romance and humour as well. The audience also learns how and why you margarine a man's backside.