A TESTIMONY, A PRAYER, A HALLELUJAH, AN INCANTATION
Directed by Eve Ensler and featuring Kerry Washington, Shirley Knight,
and a New Orleans Cast
Tickets starting at $25 on sale NOW for New York City. Stay tuned for ticket details for the New Orleans performance.
Directed by:
Eve Ensler
Performances by:
Troi Bechet, Asali Njeri DeVan, Anne-Liese Juge Fox, Karen-kaia Livers and singers Michaela A. Harrison, Leslie Blackshear Smith and featuring Shirley Knight & Kerry Washington*
With generous support from Culture Project and The Rockefeller Foundation
NEW ORLEANS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2010
MAHALIA JACKSON THEATER
NEW YORK
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2010
APOLLO THEATER, HARLEM
"Swimming UpStream .... is the poetic equivalent of a breached levee. What begins as a flood of raw human emotion becomes a source of healing, transcendence and new beginnings."
--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 2008
Written by 16 New Orleans' women, Swimming Upstream premiered in April 2008 at V-Day's "V To The Tenth" celebration and enjoyed a subsequent sold-out run in Atlanta in November 2008. Swimming Upstream is a powerful theatrical production that tells the raw and soulful stories of women who lived through the flood with grace, rage and great resiliency, punctuated by a flair for story telling, humor and music that comes from being New Orleanian.
Tickets starting at $25 on sale NOW for New York City. Stay tuned for ticket details for the New Orleans performance.
