LOVE I AWETHU FURTHER
by a.k. Payne
Directed by Tamilla Woodard
Produced in Association with Jamila Ponton Bragg
JUNE 1 – 27, 2027
Time slips. Breath syncs. A revolution begins.
Callie dreams up a plan—slow-grown in tobacco rows, memorized in the body, waiting for the right storm. On the plantation that Mistress Catherine insists is a utopia of women, a constellation gathers around Callie: twin, lover, reader, seer, ancestor. Together, they wrestle with an infinite question—what does it cost to be free?
In this explosive and poetic adaptation of Julius Caesar, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize winner a.k. payne (Furlough’s Paradise) defies genre and gender expectations as they show history as something unstable, collective, and still unfolding.