"Jenna Harris explodes into the character, Lela... There is an urgency to Lynn's

                script, which she smartly writes." - Toronto Star

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"Shaw stages this with urgency, power and a grip that often makes one want to

                look away, but we don't." - Slotkin Review 

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"Lela, played with clear-eyed commitment by Jenna Harris...it's an effort to drive

                home or complicity and willful blindness to the continued existence of sexual

                slaves even within our own borders." - The Torontoist

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"...even a story as painful as this one can be a thing of beauty." - The Charming Modernist

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"I wanted to punch Graham Cuthbertson in the face for 90% of the play, and I

                mean that as the highest compliment." - Mooney on Theatre

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First produced in 2015 at the Royal Court Theatre in London, Lela & Co. is a timely and gut-wrenching play about women’s worth in a capitalist world.

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And as for what came next, things unspoken and untold until now, Lela's story untold in its entirety, it happened like this...

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Based on a true story, Lela & Co. gives space for a woman to be able to tell her story of being brought into sex trafficking by her husband during a time of war. Starting off as a seemingly innocuous telling by Lela of her childhood, Lela & Co. dives headfirst into this while also exploring “truth” in storytelling, who gets to tell whose story, and the resiliency of the human spirit.