CENTRAL SQUARE THEATER
THE BRIT D'ARBELOFF WOMEN & SCIENCE THEATER FESTIVAL
Splash Hatch on the E Going Down
By Kia Corthron and directed by Lyndsay Allyn Cox
April 19 - April 25, 2021
Streaming Virtually
Suggested audience: adults and older youth
Thyme is fifteen, a straight A student, and three months pregnant. Her husband Erry is eighteen, works in construction. They plan for their future in the bedroom of her parents’ Harlem apartment, where they live. As Erry’s health begins to deteriorate from occupational lead inhalation, Thyme is strangely oblivious, instead intensely focused on the growing fetus inside her – giving birth in water (a “Splash Hatch”) – and becoming fascinated with urban politics and environmental racism. Playwright Kia Corthron has been praised for her poetic language and vivid characters grappling with one of the great existential threats of our time.
Watch the production and join the panel conversation about Environmental Racism and Justice on April 22!
The Brit d’Arbeloff Women & Science Theater Festival is a month-long Festival of virtual performances, panels and special events at the intersection of art and science. The Theater Festival is the brainchild of Catalyst Collaborative@MIT at Central Square Theater, the nation's oldest ongoing partnership between a professional theater company and a world-class research institution. The Festival was created to amplify voices underrepresented in science (women, BIPOC/Black, Indigenous, people of color), promote mentoring opportunities, encourage engagement in science for audiences and artists, and to form a national network of theaters engaged in science.