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Theater Exile produces nothing that is amateur, from staging, costumes, set design, set transition, acting, it all comes together to convey meaning, entertainment, and sometimes a shock or a comic moment when least expected. Like an award-winning, well researched and well-constructed novel, all their performances have given me something to ponder. And just like I’ve discovered after a discussion of such a book, each person will interpret the work as it relates and speaks uniquely to them.
THE GREAT PRIVATION - "How to make ten cents into a dollar" by Nia Akilah Robinson. In 1832, a mother and daughter keep vigil at a grave by The African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Philadelphia. Today, at a summer camp on the same grounds, a new, yet not entirely different mother and daughter sing camp songs and try to keep the daughter from getting expelled. As the mother in each generation tries to protect her family, both the living and the dead, timelines collide and secrets and souls become buried and revealed. What Talkin’ Broadway called “Joyous. A Lesson for our times.” The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar) is a darkly comic play about our nation’s long practice of harming Black bodies in the name of scientific progress, our responsibility to time, the importance of truth, and the role joy plays in living with a history we cannot change.
Event Limit: 12 FitC Members
Event Cost: $33 ($32 for your ticket + $1 for FitC processing). No refunds after May 28.
The $32 ticket price reflects our 20% group discount. Please do not buy a ticket for someone else. If you are a couple, you each must have a FitC membership and each sign up and pay for this event. If you have questions about this, please contact Mignon or Darlene.
Note: Please arrive between 11:30-11:45 a.m. to pick up your ticket at Box Office.
Accessibility: The theater is handicap accessible: it has ramps and elevators.
Transportation/Parking:
Public Transportation: The theater is less than a 10-minute walk from the Tasker Subway Station and one block from the SEPTA 45 bus stop (going south) at 12th Street & Reed Street. Suggest you catch it at Arch & 12th by the Convention Center, because sometimes it detours, but always stops there.
Street parking: Street parking is hard to find near the theater and some blocks come with a 2-hour limit. Consider carpooling. There is a small municipal parking lot located at 12th Street and Reed Street (2-minute walk to the theatre) but it fills up fast. Paid Parking Garages: Constitution Health Plaza, at 1930 S. Broad Street (20 min plus walk). There is probably a parking garage for the Target at 12th & Washington. Not sure of the parking fees for either. There is also the Acme parking lot, about a 15-minute walk to Theater Exile.
Questions about registration: Linda Pizzi, lindapizzi55@gmail.com
Questions about the event: contact FitC volunteer Darlene Olsen at 202-550-5128 (prefer text) or olsen.darlene@gmail.com.
Thanks also to FitC member Amy Goldman.
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