Irondale Ensemble Project

“The Irondale Ensemble Project is as close as we come these days to the Elizabethan acting companies that once presented Shakespeare’s plays to the Earl of Leicester, Sir Francis Drake and the Virgin Queen of England. ...What is on offer is the miracle of the word made flesh. I wish you joy in it.” —Lewis Lapham, editor of Lapham’s Quarterly

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651 Arts and the Irondale Ensemble Project present
a Pick Up Performance [S.] production in collaboration with LexArts

Photograph©Richard Beenen | Design by Dani Finkel

January 29- 31 | February 6 & 7

1830: Samuel and Daphney Oldham are the first free African-Americans to build their own home in Lexington, KY. Five years later, they disappear. Now, award winning artist Ain Gordon imagines the full story behind these bare facts as told from Daphney's perspective in a new one-woman play featuring Brooklyn’s own Michelle Hurst.

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The creation of In this Place… was made possible, in part, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and LexArts.