Family Tree

Winner of the 2021 Alfred Fagon Award

It's a play, a performance, a ritual, about human farming, farming humans, soil and the soul, seeds and cells... nursing the nursery, curing creation, remedies and vaccinations against white supremacist racism; birthing revolution, raising redemption, finding yourself in the forest of futurity, the promise of immortality and the matter of Black lives.

Henrietta Lacks is one of most remarkable people in medical history. Her cells were taken without her or ...