“It speaks to the cost of brutality within the family and the way that that brutality spreads itself throughout the society and makes for an uncaring, unfeeling society and makes for communities that simply do not know how to look after their own.” Wilkinson said he knows the play will have a great impact on those who watch it, and he is amazed at the continuing relevance of the play in today’s society. The actors were grateful for the process which led to the development of their characters. Wilkinson said he was excited to be bringing the play back again and he was grateful for the cast and crew. The play has since been produced several more times under different directors. Lester Efebo Wilkinson, who directed the play when it was first staged in 1979. As the narrator, Pa Cefus (Darin Gibson) says “When yuh plant a bitter cassava garden, all while it growing, it lush and green like any good cassava crop, but in the fullness of the time, papa, is a bitter harvest to reap.” Power is also part of the story, the power of revenge and a broken heart, and karma, the notion that what goes around comes around. The play tells the story of Samuel William Blondell (Muhammad Muwakil), the village ram, who throws his common-law wife Justina (Tishanna Williams) and their three children out of the house when he decides to marry Betty-Lou (Ruby Parris), and the repercussions that follow. Power defines Bi tter Cassava, from the music to dancing to the singing to the performances delivered by every actor on stage.