The Great
Privation
(How to flip ten cents into a dollar)
by Nia Akilah Robinson
directed by Evren Odcikin
February 26 - March 27
You think, we carry our ancestors with us?
No. I do think there are hints they leave for us though. In our walk. Or maybe I don’t know. In the soil. I don’t know.
1832: a mother and daughter stand vigil behind the African Baptist Church in Philadelphia at the grave of a recently deceased loved one. Today, on the same grounds: another strangely familiar mother and daughter work as counselors at what is now a sleepaway camp. Timelines collide, horrors are buried and revealed, but love never lacks.
The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar) is a darkly comic play about our nation’s long practice of harming Black bodies in the name of scientific progress, our responsibility to time, and the role joy plays in living with a history we cannot change.
All performances at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Playwrights Horizons. (416 West 42nd Street)
Creative Team
Nia Akilah Robinson
Playwright
Evren Odcikin
Director
Mariana Sanchez
Scenic Designer
Kara Harmon
Costume Designer
Marika Kent
Lighting Designer
Tosin Olufolabi
Sound Design
Cookie Jordan
Wig and Hair Design
Jackson Berkley
Props Supervisor
Mars Wolfe
Production Stage Manager
Sarah Matthews
Assistant Stage Manager
Arminda Thomas
Dramaturgy Consultant
Ann James
Sensitivity Specialist
Xavier Clark
Voice and Dialect Coach
tbd casting co.
Casting Director
Jaz Hall
Assistant Director
Cast
Crystal Lucas-Perry
Mrs. Freeman / Minnie
Clarissa Vickerie
Charity / Charity
Holiday
Janitor / Cuffee
Miles G. Jackson
John / John
Supporters
Funding for The Great Privation is provided, in part, by the Laurents / Hatcher Foundation and the Venturous Theater Fund of the Tides Foundation.
