DWELLERS

A WORKS IN PROGRESS READING
A play by a.k. payne
Directed by Josiah Davis
April 15
April 15

DWELLERS

SYNOPSIS

Sharks are fed, heads explode; the ship keeps sailing. Inspired by Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return, Dwellers tells a story of 9 Black people on the deck of a ship headed back to that infamous site of rupture and memory. An inherently fluid, poetic and experimental ensemble exploration occurring out of linear and historical time, this play’s scenes can be rearranged in any order around an anchoring beginning and end. What does it mean to return home?

CREATIVE TEAM