About
Hailed as "revelatory" by The New Yorker Magazine, this regional premiere from Pulitzer Prize-winner Jackie Sibblies Drury features Broadway star Tina Fabrique alongside local favorite Kim Bey under the direction of Eric Ruffin (Mosaic’s Fabulation, 2019). Inspired by the real life of Mary Seacole, a British-Jamaican nurse and businesswoman who cared for soldiers during the Crimean War, Marys Seacole charts one Black woman’s extraordinary journey through space and time - from mid-1800s Jamaica to a modern-day nursing home - with fierce theatricality and reverence for the caregivers and unsung heroes among us.
Underwriters: Leslie Scallet & Maury Lieberman, Susan Clampitt & Jeremy Waletzky, with additional support from Leonade Jones, Debbie Goldman and Muriel Wolf.
Note: This production will not have a video streaming option.
Content Transparency: This production contains adult language.
MAY 5 - MAY 29, 2022
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PRESS AND REVIEWS
“A substantive meditation on caregiving and mothering. [Kim] Bey is charismatic and engaging.”
"[An] inspiring...outstanding all-female cast" who are "pitch-perfect and...very funny"
"It’s a breathtaking, unmissable show."
"Excellent, six-woman acting ensemble, steady directing, and superb projections"
“Broadway actor and singer Tina Fabrique discusses the most sophisticated play she's ever been in”
“Eric Ruffin, Tina Fabrique, and Kim Bey on Black Women Care Work.”
Additional Press:
Playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury on race, creativity and the legacy of Mary Seacole. - The Guardian
Jackie Sibblies Drury on the Work of Caregiving and Taking - The New Yorker
Additional Info
The World of Mary Seacole: a video from Lincoln Theater Center
Written in 1857, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivaled Florence Nightingale’s during the Crimean War. Seacole traveled widely before arriving in London, where her offer to volunteer as a nurse in the war was met with racism and refusal. Undaunted, she set out independently to the Crimea, where she acted as doctor and “mother” to wounded soldiers while running her business, the “British Hotel.” Told with energy, warmth, and humor, her remarkable life story and accounts of hardships at the battlefront offer significant insights into the history of race politics.