cullud wattah at Atlas Performing Arts Center

cullud wattah

Atlas Performing Arts Center
1333 H Street NE Washington

It is 2016 and it has been 936 days and counting since Flint, Michigan, has had clean water. Third-generation General Motors employee Marion finds herself on the cusp of a promotion until her sister begins participating in protests accusing the company of poisoning the water. Forced to confront their past and weigh their limited options for the future, the family finds their tight-knit unit threatened by more than just the toxicity of the water.

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Show Type: Drama

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Washington Post - Recommended

"...The play gets a staging at Mosaic Theater more than three years after its premiere and more than a decade after residents in the auto manufacturing hub were alerted to hazardous-waste levels of lead and other toxins in their tap water. That the story has no clear or conclusive ending underscores the way our chronically exhausted society keeps being forced to attend to some new cataclysm even as older ones continue unfolding."

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- Trey Graham

DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

"...cullud wattah, written by Erika Dickerson-Despenza and directed by Danielle A. Drakes, informs us not only that the crisis in Flint is not over but that wherever we are in the country, we are also victims of this crisis and complicit in its implementation. What Dickerson-Despenza and Drakes have produced in collaboration with their fiercely committed cast is not a news report, social realism, or propaganda. Just as Euripides did with The Trojan Women, cullud wattah offers us a moving chronicle of a people under siege: a testimony of witness that is both epic in scale and personal in its appeal."

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- Gregory Ford

MetroWeekly - Recommended

"...Bellamore's portrayal has the character's combativeness well in hand, but the unfathomable cost of Ainee's previous losses doesn't register. In general, the ensemble, under the direction of Danielle A. Drakes, suitably relays the familial bonds of women who have each other's backs, even though they're often at each other's throats. Mitchell's cantankerous, God-loving Big Ma best exemplifies those dynamics of tender care and tough love."

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- Andre Hereford

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