Worthy - France-Luce Benson

Haiti’s historic debt collides with one woman’s relationship with money, self-worth and the true cost of freedom.
About this Event

Worthy is a wickedly funny, brutally honest, deeply personal solo performance unpacking the emotional baggage attached to what we earn, owe, and deserve. In the final installment of France-Luce Benson’s Haitian Revolution Trilogy, she traces hidden connections between Haiti’s devastating “Double Debt” to France and the United States and the trauma that shaped her own sense of self-worth. Through personal narrative, music, dance, and multimedia, Benson weaves Haiti’s economic history together with her complicated relationship with money, creating something simultaneously intimate and epic, heartbreaking and hopeful. This personal and political reckoning confronts how shame, ambition, survival, inherited grief, and history shape how we spend, save, and value ourselves. At a moment when questions of Haiti, reparations, liberation, and historical accountability remain urgent, Worthy challenges inherited narratives while asking one deceptively simple question: What is the true cost of freedom?

Directed by: Sammie Wayne, IV

Runtime: 75 Minutes

Performance Dates and Times:

• Saturday, September 12th at 6:00 PM
• Saturday, September 19th at 7:20 PM
• Friday, September 25th at 9:40 PM