FPAC: Truth - A Biofictional Choreopoem

A new play combining spoken word, storytelling, movement and music to tell the stories of 19th century black female abolitionists. Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Hayden and women of lesser known history serve as prototypes for the characters of the play. Truth consists of fragments of story, primary source materials, carte de visites, biography and U.S. history of slavery. Current scholarship in Africana studies, on the powerful and forceful role that Black abolitionists played in catalyzing an end to U.S. slavery, heavily influences the thought of the play.