India Nicole Burton is joined by ensemble members Jaiie Dayo Aliya, Zyrece Montgomery, Molly Andrews-Hinders, and Micheal Akintoye from the Cleveland Public Theatre, who are working on an untitled new performance that reimagines racial history in the Americas. Their point of departure is the question: What would the world look like had any single insurrection that ever occurred, during slavery, been successful?
They base their fictional narrative on a historical event in 1663, known as “The Servants’ Revolt,” in which African slaves and European indentured servants joined together to rise up against their cruel tobacco plantation managers in Gloucester County, Virginia. Learn More at NACL.ORG