She Danced with a Redfish: A Play in Two Acts

From New Orleans's vast mythology springs this play featuring Marie Laveau, a young free woman of color, as she is transformed from a Catholic bride to an active participant in African spiritual traditions in the pre-Civil War French Quarter. When the Saint-Domingue priestess Sanité Dédé performs a midnight ritual cleansing in Marie's cottage, the unexpected return of Marie's husband, Jacques Paris, disrupts the ceremony, ultimately leading to her awakening to African mysticism. The magic o...