A better life? Play explores what really happens when Mom leaves to work in another country

How Black Mothers Say I Love You, the new play that opens at the Great Canadian Theatre Company next week, was inspired by an exchange between playwright Trey Anthony and her cancer-stricken 80-year-old grandmother.In her playwright’s message, Anthony writes about asking her grandmother if there was anything she regretted.The answer: “My biggest regret was leaving my children … Sometimes as a mother you have to do what is best for your children. But they will never understand.