Bringing Phillis to Life

When:
Monday, Oct 30, 2023 5:30p -
7:00p

Where:
Online event
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02115

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Admission:
$10.00

Hosted by:
joyraft.host68625 Elsbeth Pratt

Categories:
History, Virtual

Event website:
https://www.masshist.org/events/bringing-phillis-life

Massachusetts Historical Society presents Bringing Phillis to Life, an event featuring playwright Ade Solanke and scholars David Waldstreicher, CUNY Graduate Center and Tara Bynum, University of Iowa.


Phillis in London, a new play written by Ade Solanke, dramatizes and reimagines Phillis Wheatley’s experience of being an enslaved African woman writer abroad in London in 1773. She was “celebrated” by the elite of the British empire despite visiting at the height of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Phillis Wheatley, who published the first book by an African-American woman, has recently been the subject of plays and artistic renderings. Solanke will read an excerpt from the new play and consider, in conversation with scholars David Waldstreicher and Tara Bynam, the legacy of Wheatley and how artists have chosen to portray the writer.


This is a hybrid event. FREE for MHS Members. $10 per person fee (in person). No charge for virtual attendees or Card to Culture participants (EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare). The in-person reception starts at 5:30 and the program will begin at 6:00.

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