The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar)
The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar)
ISBN: 9780573000560
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Overview
You think, we carry our ancestors with us?
No. I do think there are hints they leave for us though. In our walk. Or maybe I don’t know. In the soil. I don’t know.
1832: A mother and daughter stand vigil behind the African Baptist Church in Philadelphia at the grave of a recently deceased loved one. Today, on the same grounds: Another strangely familiar mother and daughter work as counselors at what is now a sleepaway camp. Timelines collide, horrors are buried and revealed, but love never lacks.
The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar) is a darkly comic play about America’s long practice of harming Black bodies in the name of scientific progress, our responsibility to time, and the role joy plays in living with a history we cannot change.
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- Time Period: Contemporary, 19th Century
- Cast Attributes: Role(s) for Black Actor(s)
- Target Audience: Adult
Authors
Nia Akilah Robinson
Nia Akilah Robinson (she/her) is a playwright and actor who reps Harlem with all her might. She will have a London premiere of her play The Great Privation, at Theatre503. The Hearth is producing Nia’s play Push Party at TheatreLab in New York City. In the fall, she will be a ...