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Shadow/Land will premiere on April 13 as part of its free streaming service. Set during the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, a young woman convinces her mother to sell their family business. Shadow/Land is the first in a 10-part series of plays examining the disastrous effects of Hurricane Katrina and how its long-lasting damage can still be felt in present-day society. “Shadow/Land began as a recovery project through which I resurrected my family's business as all photographs of Shadowland were claimed by The Flood that followed Hurricane Katrina” said Dickerson-Despenza. “The play grew into a timely meditation on how apocalypse clarifies or redirects our wanting. It is an epic exploration of queer Black southern women navigating disaster, duty and desire.”
Candis C. Jones and Erika Dickerson-Despenza Joseph Marzullo/WENN The Public Theater has added the world premiere of Erika Dickerson-Despenza's audio play Shadow/land to its current spring digital theatre season. The play will be available for free, on-demand streaming beginning April 13 on Public Play Now as well as on all podcast platforms. Playwright Erika Dickerson-Despenza is the Public's 2019-2020 Tow Foundation playwright-in-residence, and a Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award and Lilly Award recipient. Candis C. Jones, also a recipient of a New York Women's Foundation Lilly Award, helms the production featuring Te'Era Coleman, Lizan Mitchell, Lance E. Nichols, Lori Elizabeth Parquet, Sunni Patterson, and Michelle Wilson.