A Woman of Colour: adapting a lost classic for the American stage

Name: A Woman of Colour: adapting a lost classic for the American stage
Start: 2024-12-09T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-12-09T22:00:00-05:00
Location: St. Paul & St. Andrew United Methodist Church

Schedule

Mon Dec 09 2024 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

St. Paul & St. Andrew United Methodist Church | New York, NY

In Georgian England, a biracial heiress travels from Jamaica to claim her inheritance. Join us for a staged reading of this lost novel.
About this Event

The celebrated performing arts company Aquila Theatre collaborates with Thinkery & Verse to present a staged-reading of The Woman of Colour, an anonymous 1808 novel. We've been unpacking, rethinking, and reinterpretting this novel, and now we're ready for the next step in our process: YOU! We are offering free tickets to test out our ideas with a live audience. Let's experience this ground-breaking story together!