Fabric Softener

Opening Date: Jul 25, 2024

Closing Date: Jul 27, 2024

Running Time: 01:15

https://www.theshed.org/program/401-open-call-asia-stewart

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The Shed

545 West 30th Street , New York City, NY 10001

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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.

Off Broadway Opera Free

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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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.
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Entrance

Both entrances are wheelchair accessible
Parking

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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
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