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John Nicholas Brown Center
2010-03-10T19:30:00
Harriet Jacobs
Harriet Jacobs
March 10-13, 2010
Perishable Theatre
95 Empire Street
Providence, RI
This extraordinary play tells Harriet Jacobs' harrowing yet inspiring true story about her life as a slave in the years leading to the Civil War, bringing an utterly fresh treatment to a difficult subject. Astonishing and compelling, Harriet Jacobs is the story of a remarkable woman's resistance to oppression. Jacobs, a teenage literate slave and aspiring writer, escaped her predatory master by hiding in an attic crawlspace for seven years, from where she watched her children grow up under the care of her own grandmother before finally fleeing north. In Lydia R. Diamond's adaptation of Jacobs' autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet reaches out from her own era and compels us to look at our history as if for the first time. Directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian, this unsparing yet poetic coming-of-age story is based on the only published book-length slave narrative written by a woman.
Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 10, through Saturday, March 13, with an additional matinee performance at 3 p.m. on Saturday.
Tickets are $20 for adults and $15 for seniors, students, and members of the Armed Forces. Tickets are available at ArtTixRI.com or by calling 401 621-6123. Tickets can be purchased immediately prior to performance times at the Perishable Theatre box office. All performances will be followed by talk back panels.
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