Splash Hatch on the E Going Down
by Kia Corthron
directed by Cheryl Lynn Bruce
March 14 - April 13, 2025
Definition @ 55th, 1160 E. 55th St
About
Thyme is fifteen, an A student, and three months pregnant. Erry is eighteen, the opposite of book-smart, and lives with his wife, Thyme, in the bedroom of her parents’ Harlem apartment. Shaneequa is fifteen, Thyme’s best friend, mother of an infant, and has picked up the habit during her current pregnancy of eating dirt. Erry gets a job in construction, but his health slowly begins to deteriorate: occupational lead inhalation. Besides Thyme’s obsessions with all the mechanics of the maturing fetus inside her and with the option of delivering in water, she has recently become fascinated with urban politics of the environment: why communities of color are consistently housed in the most hazardous areas. She is a data-gathering machine yet remains strangely oblivious to Erry’s mounting illness—her research fixation suddenly, devastatingly brought home.
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Sponsors
CityArts
Illinois Arts Council
Angell Foundation
Donnelley Foundation
Shubert Foundation
Black Seed Fund
Healing IL
Harper Court Arts Council
