Join us for a reading of new play Affecting Expression at The Sheen Center with Kitchen Sink Theatre on February 24th at 7pm!
Written by Eliana Cohen-Orth '21, Directed by Eliyana Abraham '23, and Starring Paige Allen '21, Nora Aguiar '21, BT Hayes '22, Sam Melton '23

Affecting Expression unearths queer history with humor, heart, and imaginative theatricality—and explores female artists’ multi-layered relationships with each other, art-making, legacy, and home.

It’s 1852, and renowned crossdressing Shakespearean actress Charlotte Cushman is retiring from the stage to move to Rome with her long-term partner, writer Matilda Hays. Joining their party is a young sculptor named Harriet Hosmer and an enigmatic figure representing Charlotte’s stage persona: “Dramatis Personae." As tension rises, the walls of their home and the boundary between art and reality become increasingly unreliable. This queer tragicomedy combines history with meta-theatrical and fantastical elements to imagine what a queer household would look like without the modern language to describe that experience, and explores the thin line between finding and losing oneself in art.

Ticket Website: http://www.kitchensinktheatrecompany.com