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Monumental Travesties


  • Mosaic Theater Company at Atlas Performing Arts Center 1333 H Street Northeast Washington, DC, 20002 United States (map)

Performances: Sept 7 - Oct 1, various hours.

BY PSALMAYENE 24
DIRECTED BY REGINALD L. DOUGLAS

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.

Events and Accessible Performances:

  • Sunday, Sep 24—Open Captioning and talkback with ASL interpretation

  • Wednesday, Sep 27 @ 11 AM—Open Captioning

  • Wednesday, Sep 27 @ 8 PM—Open Captioning

Earlier Event: September 7
Clannad - In A Lifetime: The Farewell
Later Event: September 7
Baño de luna (Bathing in Moonlight)