About This Show

In Unearthing, an ancient, genderqueer griot sits in a waist-high mound of dirt sourced from an unrecognized burial ground of enslaved Africans in New York City. The griot is both human and spirit; neither man or woman; of the past, present, and future. The audience witnesses the griot transform their body into an alter of protection for Black people – living, deceased, and yet-to-be born. During this ritual performance, the griot covers themselves in dirt, glitter, paint, and rum while unearthing stories of Black queer resistance and liberation.

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A workshop showing of a semi-autobiographical play about identity, loneliness, and displacement. At fifteen, A Girl in Rags, a little brown boy, was often left inside of his room to his own devices. Sometimes he would get into the occasional physical altercation with his family members. Sometimes he’d play with himself. Sometimes he’d listen to PJ Harvey and think about all of the people he would rather be, often hot white women with money. Come spend an evening with A Girl in Rags and the tragic figures that can’t escape his room or his mind, like himself as a white girl, and a white girl as himself, and Blanche DuBois..and a mannequin as his father….with inspiration by the likes of Adrienne Kennedy, Hilton Als, and Robert Palmer, undoubtedly.