Coming This Weekend: Arts Garage in Delray Beach is Presenting axes, herbs and satchels

Multi-Generational World Premiere Present Explores the Silenced Traditions of Black Midwives

(Delray Seashore, FL – February 20, 2025) Marjorie Waldo, President & CEO of Arts Storage, immediately reminded theater followers that the nonprofit group is presenting a world premiere manufacturing this weekend as a part of its ongoing Artists-in-Residence (AiR) collection, which is underwritten by a grant from the Cultural Council for Palm Seashore County’s Cultural Arts & Training Fund.

The manufacturing—axes, herbs and satchels—was developed and carried out by The Anthropologists, considered one of New York Metropolis’s main devised theatre firms, which is devoted to “the collaborative creation of investigative theatre that conjures up motion.” In accordance with its Mission Assertion, the group fuses “analysis, expressive motion, and rigorous dramaturgy (to) create dynamic performs rooted in social inquiry.”

“Ever because it was based in 2008, The Anthropologists have used theatre to interact with difficult questions, to re-contextualize the current and reimagine our collective future—and that’s precisely what this dynamic group will probably be doing at Arts Storage,” says Waldo.

February 23 (Sunday) at 7 pm

AXES, HERBS AND SATCHELS

Carried out by The Anthropologists

Black and brown birthing our bodies are at risk. Can the silenced traditions of Black midwives maintain the important thing to saving them? With an organization of six Black girls and femme performers, axes, herbs and satchels travels throughout generations with storytelling, motion, and ritual. Developed by way of in depth ethnographic analysis and private accounts, this beautiful new play opens an area for collective studying and profound therapeutic.

Rooted within the historical past and embodied knowledge of doulas and midwives, axes, herbs and satchels is a celebration of conventional information held within the Black beginning employee group and a potent examination of maternal mortality. 

America has a maternal mortality price that’s thrice greater than another high-income nation. Black and Indigenous birthing individuals are significantly in danger, with loss of life charges as much as thrice extra doubtless than their white counterparts. Fashionable drugs could also be at our fingertips, however did it come on the value of shedding the traditional practices of doulas and midwives? 

The play is being devised from an array of analysis supplies; first-hand accounts, medical textbooks, ethnological analysis, and first sources documenting grand midwives and the historical past of midwifery.

The workforce behind and starring in axes, herbs and satchels embody Co-Director/Co-Author Melissa Moschitto, Co-Director/Performer Sandie Luna, and Performer/Devisers Jalissa Fulton, Asha John, and Brianna Johnson, Performer Shakerria Breonie Henderson, and Deviser/Contributing Author Devynity Wray.

Pre-Present Open Rehearsal & Talkback:

“Arts Storage will current a singular alternative to interact with axes, herbs and satchels by that includes an open rehearsal and talkback session,” provides Waldo. “We’re extending this invitation to native highschool and school college students, with a particular alternative for contributors in Performing for Adults, a long-time grownup arts training course, to realize perception into the inventive course of. That is an enriching expertise designed to foster creativity and dialogue amongst aspiring younger artists.”