Phillis In Boston, Play Celebrating African American Poet and Prodigy Phillis Wheatley's Revolutionary Legacy, Opens Nov 3 at the Old South Meeting House
BOSTON, Oct. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Boston nonprofit Revolutionary Spaces announces the debut of Phillis in Boston, an original play dramatizing a key moment in the life of both the nation and the celebrated poet Phillis Wheatley, enslaved author of the first known book of poetry in English by an African American woman.
- A unique work of place-based theater, Phillis in Boston will be performed as a site-specific play at the Old South Meeting House in Boston, where Wheatley was a congregant.
- Phillis in Boston illuminates the multiple struggles for freedom underway in Boston shortly after Wheatley returned in 1773 from a whirlwind visit to London, where she was feted as a literary celebrity.
- Phillis in Boston is a companion piece to Solanke's play Phillis in London, which explores Wheatley's experiences as she moved through Britain's elite literary and abolitionist circles in the summer of 1773.
- I'm grateful to the entire Boston community who've so generously shared their ancestral 's/heroes' with me."