Kainchee Lagaa + Jhooti: The Begging Brown Bitch Plays

by Zaiba Baig

A House of Beida and Buddies Co-Production

April 1 – 18, 2026
$10 / $25 / $45 / $75
all prices + fees

I’ve been a bitch as long as I can remember. 

The Begging Brown Bitch Plays are about lying, sex, and rebirthing oneself: over and over and over again. Zaiba Baig, Peabody Award-winning co-creator of CBC/Max/Sphere Media’s Sort Of, explores deception, desire, and family fractured by displacement in these two unflinching stories of Brown trans women caught between worlds. Kainchee Lagaa and Jhooti are playing as a double bill with a short intermission between the shows.

Please note that both shows play every night of the run — one ticket allows you to see both Kainchee Lagaa and Jhooti!

Kainchee Lagaa

Taxali Gate, Lahore, now / Etobicoke, Ontario, now
Billo is a sex worker who spends most of her time waiting for men and eating tandoori chicken in bed. She’s saving up to run away with someone special, so tip generously. On the other side of the world, her estranged brother Arsalan is looking for something that feels like home, trying to reach back toward Billo before his survivor’s guilt swallows him whole. 

Jhooti

North America, now
Sakeena leaves home for good while her sister is at work. Sakeena is a Bollywood Item Number Girl. Actually, I’m sorry, she’s not. She’s not from here though. But she’s not a liar. She’s finally arrived, and no one has ever believed her, so can you blame her for telling the truth, even when it doesn’t match the facts?

Zaiba Baig // playwright 
Tawiah M’Carthy // director

Preview
Apr 1 // 7:30PM

Show Run
Apr 1 – 18
Wed – Fri // 7:30PM
Sat // 2PM + 7:30PM

Mask Mandatory Performances
Wed, April 8 // 7:30PM + Sat, April 18 // 2PM

Audio-Described Performances
Sat, April 11 // 7:30PM + Sat, April 18 // 2PM

Audio Description will be provided by Superior Description Services, accompanied by a brief touch tour before the show to acquaint audiences with the world of the show. To reserve your headset, please book an "Audio-Description Ticket" as we have limited amounts of headsets available. If you require assistance booking, please contact producer Aidan Morishita-Miki at 416-975-8555 x1005, or aidan@buddiesinbadtimes.com.

Brown Babes & Baddies Night
Sat, April 4 // 7:30PM

The performance of Kainchee Lagaa & Jhooti on Saturday April 4 (7:30PM) is intended to create an affinity space and opportunity for South Asian audiences to see the show in community.

“It is my intention for this night to place South Asian audiences at the centre of this storytelling, to offer a space for the culturally-specific complexities and nuances of the plays to be felt together.” - Zaiba Baig

“South Asian” is used strategically and expansively: there is no way to adequately represent all the complexities of having identities connected to “South Asia,” which can include diasporic, Nepali, NRI, Tamil, Indo-Caribbean, Oriya-speaking, brown, Tibetan, Fijian, Maldivian, mixed-race, Pakistani, and more. We intentionally disrupt the exclusion of Black “south asian” folks, Dalit folks and others in this invitation and welcome communities who may see themselves reflected in this show's content as it relates to their cultural context.

This definition is inspired and modelled from anu radha verma’s language from brOWN//out 

About House of Beida 
House of Beida was created by Zaiba Baig in 2020 to support trans-led artistic projects and mentorship initiatives for trans creatives. Through House of Beida, Baig works on projects for screen and stage that champion nuance and complexity in trans narratives, as well as advocating to prioritize the needs of trans people of colour in artistic environments.

*IMAGE DESCRIPTION*

Amongst a blue/purple foggy background, a spotlight lights up Zaiba’s face with a soft gaze upwards. Zaiba is a brown queer transfemme with a jewelled maang tikka on her forehead. She wears fuchsia lipstick and her dark curly hair frame her face along with her hand that is raised just under her chin. She wears rings and bangles and you can barely make out the rest of her; a large necklace, sparkly crop top and hand positioned on her waist.