Mother Tongue

Mother Tongue is a speculative, choreopoetic play about the Grenadian heritage I carry with me because of my mother, who immigrated to Brooklyn. The play features folktale figures who come to my mother in dreams and ancestral figures who I look to for inspiration. The play is haunting, vulnerable, and heart-filling.

All patrons must be asymptomatic and vaccinated and proof of vaccination and ID must be checked at the door by Yale College Arts staff.

Livestream link for Saturday 8 p.m. performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdTRvNYWVws

Poet: Nyeda Stewart
Mother: Kristen St Louis
Daughter: Sélah Reid
Grandma/Souci/Agnes: Semilore Ola
Grandpa/Nansi/Lotto: Maxwell Brown

Playwright/Director: Nyeda Stewart
Choreographer/Assistant Director: Katia George
Producer: Kadiatou Keita
Stage Managers: Jailon Henry, Annli Nakayama, Hailey Andrews, Sonnet Carter
Graphic/Production Designer: Sonnet Carter
Videographer: Abeyaz Amir
Photographer: Cassidy Arrington

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Co-hosted with: Undergraduate Production