The Story of Queen of Cubs

Adapted from The Lion King, this is the story of a lioness and the challenges she faces after the death of her king and the abdication of Simba, the next king. The female lions were left to fend for themselves. This scenario is a mirror of what girls and women in the Black Community face every day. Yet they overcome, heal, and rise to leadership positions. We explore the story through the eyes of the young lioness, Nala, while overlaying the social structures of animal kingdom dynamics onto human experiences of gender and power.