Tuesday, 15 April 2014 18:49

The House That Will Not Stand

(l to r) The cast: Petronia Paley (La Veuve / Marie Josephine), Tiffany Rachelle Stewart (Agnès), Lizan Mitchell (Beartrice), Flor De Liz Perez (Maude Lynn), Joniece Abbott-Pratt (Odette), and Harriett D. Foy (Makeda). Not pictured: Ray Reinhardt (Lazare).

 

 

We learned a lot about slavery in our history books, but in Marcus Gardley’s new play, The House That Will Not Stand, we discover the free women of color of the 1830s and what they had to do to survive.

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