written by Nia Witherspoon

Staged Reading

The Fire This Time Festival

The Kraine Theatre, New York, NY

February 2017

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Set in the dystopic future in the final year of Trump’s second term as president, Sayida, a black caregiver accused of murdering a white Alzheimer’s patient is thrust between the nursing home, a South Carolina plantation, and the Haitian Revolution, as she struggles to keep her child alive and her partner out of the custody of the state.

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Performed by: Lori Parquet, Tanisha Thompson, Linda La Sarabi, Oceana James, and Rosalyn Temple

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Originally commissioned by The Fire This Time's 10-minute Play Festival, The Kraine Theatre, New York, NY, February 2016