TIGRESS OF SAN DOMINGUE follows Cécile, an enslaved African healer turned rebel soldier, and Valentine, a French expat caught between two worlds. As Toussaint L’Ouverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines continue the fight for freedom and equality, Cécile rises up the military ranks. Driven by a dangerous combination of trauma and ambition, she must choose between her obligation to family, and their allegiance to the new nation rising from the ashes.
Directed by Awoye Timpo, TIGRESS OF SAN DOMINGUE is a part of Atlantic Theater Company’s African Caribbean Mixfest. “In a time of global reckoning around colonization, racism, and anti-Blackness, I hope folks continue the conversations that these plays and panels will ultimately inspire,” co-producer Guadalis Del Carmen says.
For more information visit the Atlantic Theater Company website.
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