MARYS SEACOLE

Name: MARYS SEACOLE
Start: 2025-02-23T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-23T21:30:00-05:00
Location: Live Arts

Schedule

Sun Feb 23 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Live Arts | Charlottesville, VA

Live Arts presents
A Virginia Premiere
MARYS SEACOLE
By Jackie Sibblies Drury
On Stage: February 14-March 2 in the Gibson Theater
Directed by Aiyana Straughn
Based on the real-life Mary Seacole, 19th century Jamaican nurse, adventurer and entrepreneur, Jackie Sibblies Drury’s play MARYS SEACOLE sets sail on a kaleidoscopic voyage across oceans, time-shifting through the centuries.
We meet many Marys – a West Indian nanny watching her charge on a Manhattan playground, a nursing school practicing triage, a contemporary nursing home, Mary on the Crimean battlefield, and everywhere and every-when else. MARYS SEACOLE is the tale of an extraordinary woman, chronicling the strength and empathy of all women through the centuries paid to care.
PRODUCTION TEAM
Aiyana Straughn - Director
Maia Adolphs - Assistant to the Director
Becca Budrock - Production Stage Manager
Lita Flowers - Assistant Stage Manager
Christine Jacobs - Dialect Coach
Will Slusher - Scenic Designer
Rowan Isaacson - Assistant to the Scenic Designer
Kyle Schneider - Lighting Designer
Vanessa Woodfolk - Associate Lighting Designer
Mix Rudolph - Lighting Apprentice
Zoe Dickerson - Sound Designer
Treatrous Jackson - Costume Designer
Dalyla McGee - Dramaturg
Daniel Kunkel - Fight Choreographer
CAST
Christiana Mitchell as Mary
Cadessa Davis as Mamie
Haydn Haring as May
Madison Patterson as Miriam
Marty Moore as Merry
Simona J. Halloway as Duppy Mary
Rory Adams as Mamie US
Allyson Grant as Miriam US
For more information visit: livearts.org/show/marys-seacole/