Lela and Co.

Anacostia Arts Center
1231 Good Hope Road, SE Washington

In the beginning was the mattress. Gradually, other little changes - more bolts on the front door; the gun; the locked cupboard. And she knew in her heart that change was bad. Lela & Co. is one woman's harrowing battle for survival in an increasingly unjust world.

Thru - Oct 1, 2017

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MetroWeekly - Recommended

"...Director Rick Hammerly's stark, emotionally raw staging of the play, in a new production at Factory 449 Theatre, artfully suggests more violence and suffering than it depicts. But this first-person account of survival during wartime still packs quite a wallop."

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- Andre Hereford

DCTheatreScene - Highly Recommended

"...Factory 449's decision to produce Lela & Co. in the tiny Anacostia Arts Center ratchets up the intensity of this already fierce play to an almost unbearable level, which is the level at which it should be played. You will see the tears which baptize Curry's face repeatedly; you will experience the coldness and deadness at the blasted moral center of her husband; you will not only hear the rage in McClinton's voice as he plays her father, but also the confusion and frustration. You will get every nuance of William D'Eugenio's subtle lighting design, which manages to terrify as it darkens the set, and terrify again as the brights go up."

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- Tim Treanor

BroadwayWorld - Highly Recommended

"...The production by the Factory 449 theater collective at the Anacostia Arts Center about human trafficking and sexual slavery comes with a warning - "it is intense.""

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- Roger Catlin

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Lela and Co. Reviews

MetroWeekly - Recommended

DCTheatreScene - Highly Recommended

BroadwayWorld - Highly Recommended

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