The Exponential Festival and The Brick present: “Sapphire”
January 15 - January 18
$25 – $50The Exponential Festival and The Brick present
Sapphire
by Ella Lee Davidson
at The Brick Theater — 579 Metropolitan Ave
January 15-18, 2025
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Self-identified real-ass bitch and Angry Black Woman, Peola is unlucky in love and constantly asking herself the age-old question: “When is it my turn to be happy?” After a near-death experience, she decides to make a change in her life and undergoes an experimental surgical procedure to get a BBI (Be Better Implant). Peola finally has a chance at happiness and embracing her divine feminine, as well as finding a man, but the implant and its creator are not without complications and not as perfect as they seem. Sapphire is a surreal afro-futurist satire about the stereotypes we give ourselves and others, the idea of perfection and the ideal woman, and the concept of change.
Directed by Jordan Powell
Produced by Paul William Levine
Stage managed by Qu’Raun Scott-McKoy
Set and projections by Leon Caleb Christian and Kai Hartman
Costume design by Jason Goodwin
Find them: @sapphiretheplay @smelladavidson
Sapphire was originally developed with Fresh Ground Pepper.
Content warnings: This show contains depictions of physical and domestic violence.
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