Come join us for a staged reading of Now to Ashes and discover the gripping journey of four women who changed history.
Now to Ashes is a play focusing on four exceptional abolitionist women: Sarah Grimke (Sally) and her sister Angelina Grimke (Nina), two Southern heiresses who left their life of privilege to work toward racial justice in Philadelphia; Sarah Douglass, one of the black leaders of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society; and the Grimkes’ niece, Angelina Weld Grimke, a queer black poet of her time. It reflects on an extremely polarized and fraught time in American history and pulls parallels from the past to the present in order to provide guidance for confronting our current conflicted times. Each woman’s story gives the audience a varying perspective on how to respond to injustice, while introducing the audience to a fraught time period in American history: the 1830’s during the presidency of Andrew Jackson and the actual birth of the abolitionist movement.
Play written and directed by Renae Erichsen-Teal and Sarah Pultz.
STARRING
Angelina Weld Grimke - Jam Donaldson
Sally Grimke - Mikaela Fenn
Nina Grimke - Alexandria Grigsby
Sarah Mapps Douglass - Amber Patrice Coleman
Margaretta Forten - Madison Norwood
John Grimke - Paul F. Brewster
Polly Grimke - Allison Turkel
Charlotte Forten - Paulette Grady
Israel Morris - Ari Post
Theodore Weld - Max Johnson
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