James Ijames’s amusingly cynical and eclectic new play, “The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington,” is at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival through July 30.
Source: New York Times
Review: Martha Washington, Hilariously Haunted by Her Slaves
Published in Black People, Ijames, James, Race and Ethnicity, Reynolds, Taylor (Theater Director), Slavery (Historical), Theater and Washington, Martha (1731-1802)
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