THE MOST SPECTACULARLY LAMENTABLE TRIAL OF MIZ MARTHA WASHINGTON
by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, James Ijames
A raucous & surreal reckoning with our founders’ legacy of slavery.
Behold the feverish Martha Washington, our first First Lady, on her deathbed, surrounded by the enslaved people poised to claim freedom the moment she dies (true story). In her final hours, she is confronted by a hallucinatory “trial” where she must face her past and the legacy of slavery in the United States. The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington by Pulitzer Prize-winning James Ijames (Fat Ham) is a spicy satire that explores issues of race, power, and historical memory. The Wilma’s HotHouse Acting Company brings this pertinent and dynamic production to life with deep sincerity, high-stakes clowning, and striking imagery under the direction of HotHouse Member Brett Ashley Robinson.
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spiritual experience
Spiritual Experience is a private performance with seating for two people. It is designed to be viewed by friends and familiars, or by one person alone.
Like a restaurant with only one table, set for you and a cherished companion, Spiritual Experience is a uniquely intimate encounter. No one else witnesses what you witness. It is just for you.
Spiritual Experience is not frightening and it does not involve audience participation.
Spiritual Experience: "For the you who has everything."
