I MET AN ANGEL NAMED JACQUES
Written and Directed by Gideon D. Wilonja
Performed by Ras-Samuel, Gideon D. Wilonja, Ben Chisholm, Sasha Hennequin, Atinuke Abraham
Stage Manager: Chiara Henger
Lighting Design: Tom Vulcan
Sound Design: Ethan Hunter
Set Design: Jacqueline Tran
Set Artworks: Beryl Mwamb
Costume Design: Milly Wright
Intimacy Director: Kiana Daniele
Produced by Aamer Ahmed & wani toaishara
Publicity by Sassy Red PR
A boy lost in grief.
A man consumed by ego.
A mother desperate to save her child’s soul.
I MET AN ANGEL NAMED JACQUES is set in a real world that is completely made up. At its centre is L’or, a celebrated artist whose work is bold, unrelenting, and impossible to ignore. With fame comes scrutiny, and L’or has no room for mistakes.
Enter Jacques: an ambitious cultural critic with a sharp tongue and a mind that cuts through the noise. An interview between Jacques and L’or inflames unhealed wounds and sparks a curiosity for each other’s minds that leads to complicated emotions.
A poetic, bruising dive into the ways we love, I MET AN ANGEL NAMED JACQUES is a tale about the ache for validation, facing your demons, and the dangerous comfort of familiar pain. Exploring the incessant human need for acceptance and the lengths we go to find it; it’s an electric love story that hates romance.
A man consumed by ego.
A mother desperate to save her child’s soul.
I MET AN ANGEL NAMED JACQUES is set in a real world that is completely made up. At its centre is L’or, a celebrated artist whose work is bold, unrelenting, and impossible to ignore. With fame comes scrutiny, and L’or has no room for mistakes.
Enter Jacques: an ambitious cultural critic with a sharp tongue and a mind that cuts through the noise. An interview between Jacques and L’or inflames unhealed wounds and sparks a curiosity for each other’s minds that leads to complicated emotions.
A poetic, bruising dive into the ways we love, I MET AN ANGEL NAMED JACQUES is a tale about the ache for validation, facing your demons, and the dangerous comfort of familiar pain. Exploring the incessant human need for acceptance and the lengths we go to find it; it’s an electric love story that hates romance.
wani toaishara, Footscray Community Arts, 2025
