Welcome to Midday: History Repeating at QED Astoria

“Welcome to Midday: History Repeating" is a storytelling show about how after growing up in Mississippi, Sharon Spell landed a job as a Victorian house museum docent in Pittsburgh. As she led tours through each of the public and private rooms where a Gilded Age robber baron and his family once lived, Sharon recognized this compartmentalization in her own life. She had made a series of mistakes and to publicly save face couldn’t let on how miserable she was in private. Folks heard her southern accent at work and asked, "How did you get here?" Some way, somehow, she would have to confront the reasons "how" in order to change the course of her own life's tour.

Written and Performed by Sharon Spell

Directed by Julia Whitehouse