AUDELCO Nominee
BEST LEAD ACTRESS IN A PLAY - Behind the Sheet
NY Innovative Theatre Award Nominee
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A LEAD ROLE - Entangled
April 18 - May 11
Written by Charly Evon Simpson & Gabriel Jason Dean @ The Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre at
A.R.T./New York Theatres 502 West 53rd Street
In the aftermath of a mass shooting in NYC, the black mother of a victim and the white brother of the shooter try to make sense of what happened, each individually grappling with a soul-shattering experience that few understand. An exploration of loss and survival, ENTANGLED is the story of two strangers connected by tragedy in a nation still struggling to see itself for what it is.
The cast...James Kautz & Naomi Lorrain.
Written by Charly Evon Simpson
Directed by Colette Robert
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Simpson confronts the history of a great medical breakthrough by telling the forgotten story of a community of enslaved black women who involuntarily enabled the discovery. In 1840s Alabama, Philomena assists a doctor - her owner - as he performs experimental surgeries on her fellow slave women, trying to find a treatment for the painful post-childbirth complications known as fistulas. Reframing the origin story of modern gynecology, Behind the Sheet tells how these women supported each other, and questions who, and what, history remembers.
Check Out:
-NY Times Review: Reckoning With Medical Betrayals ‘Behind the Sheet’
-Playbill: Naomi Lorrain to Lead Cast of Behind the Sheet at EST
-NY Times: 13 Plays and Musicals to go to in NYC this Weekend
