DIGNITY at The DeLUXE Theater

Winner of the “Best Storytelling Award” in the 2023 National Women’s Theatre Festival.

Divided into three vignettes set in three different centuries, "DIGNITY" explores the dignity embodied in African/African American women alongside the degradation of specific historic experiences.

19th-century: “When Mortal Puts On Immortality” is an amalgam of tradition, religion, and sexuality with colonialism dancing around the periphery of 1886 Uganda.

20th-century: “Purse Fulla Peppermints” is set in 1930 Harlem, New York. One year into the Great Depression, with visible evidence of suffering, a dispute erupts between Aunt Clara and her niece Carrie Ann over a dinner invitation extended to a German scholar studying at Union Seminary and worshipping at her predominantly Black church.

21st-century: “Aborting Betrayal’s Baby” is set in 2015, in Los Angeles, California. Almost 15 years after the 9/11 terrorist attack and Dotcom fallout, Carrie Ann still feels the financial consequences of a “love project” gone wrong. She is trying to stave off bitterness but is failing.

"DIGNITY" is not just a play—it's a mirror held up to history and a balm offered to the present. At its core, it is a meditation on the ways Black women's sacred strength continues to carve pathways toward possibility. For more information and for tickets to "DIGNITY," please visit https://www.1989dreams.com/dignity.