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Fabric Softener
Opening Date: Jul 25, 2024
Closing Date: Jul 27, 2024
Running Time: 01:15
Playing @
The Shed
545 West 30th Street , New York City, NY 10001
Asia Stewart’s Fabric Softener is a theatrical response to Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, offering an imagined ritual with the power to revive young Black women and insist on their survival. Stewart draws on three characters from the many who populate Morrison’s 1977 novel: Pilate, her daughter Reba and granddaughter Hagar. In the original text, Hagar dies of a broken heart after deeming herself unworthy of love, beauty and acceptance.
In her performance, punctuated by musical outbursts of spirituals and passages from the novel, Stewart presents three new characters who are not recreations of these women but are instead archetypes: The Laundress, The Celebrant and The Witness. The performance begins as The Celebrant and The Witness prepare The Laundress for an intervention: a baptism, a becoming and a funeral for what used to be and can no longer exist.
Part of The Shed's Open Call.
In her performance, punctuated by musical outbursts of spirituals and passages from the novel, Stewart presents three new characters who are not recreations of these women but are instead archetypes: The Laundress, The Celebrant and The Witness. The performance begins as The Celebrant and The Witness prepare The Laundress for an intervention: a baptism, a becoming and a funeral for what used to be and can no longer exist.
Part of The Shed's Open Call.
Show Notes: No intermission
Audience Advisory: This production includes moments of onstage nudity.
Performance Schedule
THURSDAY-SATURDAY @ 7:30 PM
Cast
- Asia Stewart
- Dominica Greene
- Candice Hoyes
- Shala Miller
Music
- Yaz Lancaster
Director
- Asia Stewart
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Accessibility
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Assisted Listening System
Assistive listening devices availble at any either of two ticket desks or at the coat check. A driver’s license will be held to check out the device. Admissions desks are equipped with induction loop systems. -
Elevator/Escalator
Elevators are located on the east and west sides of the building. The west elevators are closest to the Hudson Yards Public Square entrance. -
Entrance
Both entrances are wheelchair accessible -
Parking
There are two parking garages in close proximity to The Shed on West 30th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues. One is on the north side of the block, beneath Hudson Yards. An additional garage is located across the street from The Shed at 552 West 30th Street. -
Passenger Loading Zone
The Shed’s Hudson Yards Public Square entrance provides an accessible passenger loading zone allowing for automobile pick-up and drop-off access to the building -
Restroom
All of The Shed’s restrooms are accessible. Men’s (self-identified) and women’s (self-identified) restrooms can be found in The Lobby, the mezzanine, and on levels 4, 6, and 8. These restrooms include baby changing tables. Single-occupancy all-gender restrooms can be found on the mezzanine and levels 4, 6, and 8 -
Telephone
None on premises -
Wheelchair Info
All performances have wheelchair accessible seating. Call box office at (646) 455-3494 with questions










