TORN ASUNDER

By Nikkole Salter
Directed by Lisa Strum

Feb 2, 2023 – Feb 26, 2023

Starring: Brittany Davis, Kara Green, LeVane Harrington, Mark Hofmaier, Steven Makropoulos, David Roberts

Prince George's County, MD, 1859. Hannah, a relatively content enslaved woman, has her world rocked when her master dies and she, for the first time, is separated from her family, new husband, and baby. But, just as she begins to lose all hope to ever see her husband and child again, the seceded South falls to the Union, the enslaved are freed with the 13th Amendment, and Hannah has the opportunity to put her family back together...if she can find them.

TORN ASUNDER dramatizes true stories of newly emancipated African Americans trying to overcome the ever-present vestiges of institutional slavery to reconnect with their families. Based on the research of Prof. Heather Andrea Williams.