BY psalmayene 24
DIRECTED BY Reginald l. douglas

september 7 – october 8, 2023 

Abraham Lincoln’s head is missing. Chance, a Black performance artist, has surreptitiously removed it from the Emancipation Memorial—a Capitol Hill statue of Lincoln standing over a formerly enslaved man—and now it’s in his white liberal neighbor Adam’s shrubbery. This act of protest unleashes an absurdist chain of events when Adam knocks on Chance’s door, leading the two men and Chance’s wife, Brenda, down a path that questions how the symbols of our past impact our present. With sharp humor, hijinks, and a palpable love for DC, Helen Hayes Award-winning playwright Psalmayene 24’s searing new comedy explores race, memory, and the often privileged act of forgetting.

 
 
 

Monumental Travesties is sponsored by Mosaic Partners Circle Believers Jordan Lloyd Bookey & Felix Brandon Lloyd and the Bookey Family Foundation, Activists Bill Tompkins & Dana Brewington, Advocates Mimi Conway & Dennis Houlihan, David Grosso & Serra Sippel, Jean & David Grier, Frank Guzzetta & Paul Manville, Sari Hornstein, Norbert Hornstein & Amy Weinberg, and Drs. Susan & Daniel Mareck

CONTENT TRANSPARENCY (may contain spoilers)

This production of Monumental Travesties includes strobe lighting and an off-stage gunshot.

Psalmayene 24 has “increasing and deserved prominence as a playwright, director, performer, lyricist, filmmaker and seminal figure in hip-hop theater.”

—The Washington Post

 

“Known to local audiences for his work as a performer, playwright, and director, Psalm… [is a] perpetually evolving artist.”

—Washington City Paper

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Monumental Travesties Reflection Series

Mosaic expands the concept of its Reflection Series, started in 2022 in conjunction with The Till Trilogy, to year-round programming that provides inroads for deep engagement with the themes of our plays. Through cross-disciplinary, citywide partnerships, Mosaic will produce an innovative series of concerts, readings, panels, and symposiums that spark meaningful reflection and foster conversation about our work.

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