Play Screening and Discussion: Bitter Flower

Thursday, October 22, 2020 | 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM | Virtual

Join us for a screening and conversation about Bitter Flower, a play that explores the relationship between two major figures of the suffrage movement, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Jane Addams. The powerful dialogue examines the racism of the white suffrage movement and the undervalued work of Black suffragists. A post-screening conversation on past and present intersectional feminism will follow.

Program:

Screening of Bitter Flower (20min), a play by Jennifer Natalya Fink.

Post-screening conversation (45min) with Jennifer Natalya Fink, Author and English Professor; Marcia Chatelain, History Professor; and Victoria Nourse, Law Professor.

More about the play:

Bitter Flower was written by Jennifer Natalya Fink and directed by Lawrence Carlisle III and Ryan Pagels. The play was part of the Burning Coal Theatre’s 19th Amendment Project, a collection of short plays written by some of the most accomplished women and/or non-binary playwrights writing on the passage of the 19th Amendment 100 years ago and its ongoing impact.

Acknowledgments: We thank the Gilbert Theatre and the Burning Coal Theatre Company for allowing this screening to take place.