Unfinished Women Cry in No Man's Land While a Bird Dies in a Gilded Cage

By Aishah Rahman
Directed by Judyie Al-Bilali

March 7, 8, 11, 12, 13 at 7:30 p.m.
March 8 at 2 p.m.
March 11 at 10 a.m.

The Curtain Theater

$5 students, seniors, Card to Culture, $17 general admission

Unfinished Women, Aishah Rahman’s theatrical jazz tour-de-force, portrays a group of teenage mothers trying to decide whether to put their babies up for adoption, while in a room nearby, doomed genius saxophonist Charlie 'Bird' Parker slowly dies in a drugged and dream-filled haze. Rahman weaves spoken word and jazz music together in an intimate, emotional work described as an "underground classic".

Content advisory: racial slurs, discussions of sexual activity and assault, discussions and depictions of drug and alcohol use and death. Recommended for children age 15 and up

Poster design by Margaret Lepeshkin