TIME: now right now
but also 1855
but also 13th century BCE

PLACE: a ghetto street
but also a plantation
but also Egypt, a city built by slaves
(and also the new world to come ((worlds without end))

“...but she [director Danya Taymor] has also, in its last 10 minutes,
let its innate surrealism fully flower in a daring and self-consciously theatrical way. (The transformation is gorgeously rendered in Wilson Chin’s scenic design, Marcus Doshi’s lighting, Justin Ellington’s sound and even, in their removal, Sarafina Bush’s costumes.)”

Jesse Green of The New York Times

Select photos by Joan Marcus courtesy of the production

Lighting Design

Broadway at The August Wilson Theatre, August 2021

Previously at
Lincoln Center Theatre, June 2018
Amazon Films, film directed by Spike Lee, released April 2018
Steppenwolf Theatre, June 2017

Written by Antoinette Nwandu
Directed by Danya Taymor

Set Design by Wilson Chin
Costume Design by Sarafina Bush
Sound Design by Justin Ellington