The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington

The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington

Steppenwolf Theatre
1650 N. Halsted Chicago

The recently widowed "Mother of America" lies helpless in her Mount Vernon bed, ravaged by illness and attended to by the very enslaved people who will be free the moment she dies. The form-shifting fever dream that follows takes us deep into the ugly, uncomfortable and thorny ramifications of America's original sin. Both fantastical and fraught with cruel reality, this Chicago premiere from a daring new voice pulls no punches as it puts our idols, and ourselves, on trial.

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