The Anthropologists, a women-led, NYC-based investigative theater firm is launching the tri borough NYC tour of their devised play “axes, herbs & satchels: open the archives” following acclaimed stops in Indiana, Florida, and New Jersey. The tour begins at JACK in Brooklyn from Could 16-19, continues with a Washington Heights efficiency at Hebrew Tabernacle on Could 1, and culminates at Tiffany Road Theater at Inspiration Level within the Bronx on Could 9 & 10.
When Kamara, a journalist, loses a sister to childbirth, she seeks the Black midwife knowledge which may have saved her. What follows is a journey by way of the previous to reclaim the long run. The Anthropologists’ creative director Melissa Moschitto and co-director Sandie Luna helm an ensemble of Black girls who shine a light-weight on the suppressed historical past of Black midwives, doulas, and birthing our bodies with expressive motion and storytelling, immersive interplay, and a visible set up by Annabelle Páez.
“Surprisingly humorous. Unapologetic edutainment. Anybody who has ever been a affected person will acknowledge the sentiments of powerlessness and futility that clinics engender.” – Jersey Metropolis Occasions
“axes, herbs & satchels: open the archives” is an act of reparative historical past that invitations communal studying, reckoning, and therapeutic. Developed by way of in depth ethnographic analysis, main sources, and private accounts, this gorgeous new investigative theater piece celebrates conventional information held within the Black beginning employee neighborhood and potently examines maternal mortality. The play was additionally developed in partnership with the American Anthropological Affiliation, which established the corporate’s first anthropologist-in-residence, Dr. Haile Eshe Cole. The present anthropologist-in-residence is Nadia N. Mbonde.
BROOKLYN
JACK, 20 Putnam Ave, Brooklyn 11238
7:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 16
7:00 p.m. Thursday, April 17
7:00 p.m. Friday, April 18
3:00 p.m. Saturday, April 19
7:00 p.m. Saturday, April 19
JACK tickets: https://theanthropologists.ludus.com/200480687
MANHATTAN
Hebrew Tabernacle, 551 Fort Washington Ave (Washington Heights) 10033
7:00 p.m. Thursday, Could 1
Hebrew Tabernacle Tickets: https://theanthropologists.ludus.com/200480690
BRONX
Tiffany Road Theater at Inspiration Level, 710 Tiffany Road, East Bronx, Bronx, New York 10474
7:00 p.m. Friday, Could 9
7:00 p.m. Saturday, Could 10
12:00 p.m. Sunday Could 11
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