Multimedia play written by Arielle Julia Brown, directed by Nia Benjamin

At the center of Fallawayinto: Corridors of Rememory is a multi-media play by Arielle Julia Brown, constructing a living sanctuary that unites audiences in collective celebration, mourning, and remembrance. Donna Nicole Booker, born again in memory, spirit and flesh, leads audiences through a ritual for the recollection of her life, times, pasts and futures. Traversing her travels, sex work, evangelism, mothering, daughtering, art making and activism, Donna rides on the wind of fragmented confessions, heresay, testimonies and songs to share with us her singular life as a Black woman of trans experience. Conjuring memory by her side is her mother, her younger self and her beloved dog on a journey that invites us all to consider the futures of our collective bodies, memories, families and legacies. 

Masks are required at all performances and community events.

ARTISTIC TEAM

Donna Nicole Booker – Commissioner and Visionary Spirit
Arielle Julia Brown – Playwright, Project Co-Conceiver
Nia Benjamin – Production & Project Director, Ninth Planet Co-Artistic Director
Marcelline Mandeng Nken – Scenic Designer and Fabricator
Mike Inwood – Lighting Designer
Taj Rauch – Projection Designer
Jordan McCree – Sound Designer
Muteba Tshinabu – Costume Designer

Cast:

Janelle Luster – Donna
Pamela A. Hooks – Eva
Mawu Ama Ma’at Gora – Julius
Nikki Edwards – Nicole
Jakeya L. Sanders – Performer/Composer/Music Director

PRODUCTION & PROJECT TEAM

Jules Kyung Lee-Zacheis – Stage Manager
Tania “t” Saiz Perez – Stage Manager
Briajanye Garvey – Community Hub Producer / Audience & Engagement Manager
Uriah Bussey – Marketing Associate, Accessibility Coordinator, Archive Support
Shekinah Weekly – Project Manager
Sam Tower – Production Manager / Ninth Planet Co-Artistic Director
Ingrid Raphaël – Video Portraits Videographer and Editor
Courtney Creative PR – Publicist

Performances

Wednesday, January 22nd at 8pm
Thursday, January 23rd at 8pm
Friday, January 24th at 8pm
Tuesday, January 28th at 8pm
Wednesday, January 29th at 8pm 
Thursday, January 30th at 8pm
*Friday, January 31st at 8pm
*Saturday, February 1st at 8pm

*ASL interpretation provided

Venue

FringeArts
140 N. Columbus Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19106

Accessibility, Health & Safety

KF94 / KN95 masks or higher are required at all performances and community events. We have a limited supply of KF94 masks available in case you arrive without one. Air filtration will be made possible by air purifiers from People Filter and Cannonball Festival. 

Please monitor your health—if you are experiencing any symptoms of illness, including flu-like symptoms, kindly stay home. If you have access to COVID-19 testing, please test before attending.

The site is ADA accessible, with a ramp available at FringeArts for wheelchair access. All bathrooms are inclusive, non-gendered facilities. For wheelchair users, the non-gendered bathroom includes a stall that is accessible for wheelchair use. 

Performances on January 31st and February 1st will have ASL interpretation by Dana Austin available for our Deaf and Hard of Hearing communities.

To find the theater, when entering the main hallway, you will see a restaurant on your left and the theater on your right. There will be live theater lighting, but no strobes or flashing lights.

If you have any accommodation or access needs that we missed, please email patronservices@fringearts.com for more details and to discuss how we can best support you.

Fallawayinto: Corridors of Rememory is a multi-modal project that uses live, mutli-media theatre, ritual, installation and communal gathering to invite Black queer and trans* Philadelphians, constructing a living sanctuary that unites audiences in collective celebration, mourning, and remembrance. Surrounding the world premiere of Arielle Julia Brown’s multimedia play, Fallawayinto, Ninth Planet presents a series of free community programs curated by and for Black trans women in association with FringeArts, with presenting partnership from the Painted Bride Art Center.

Ninth Planet makes experimental dance-theatre that centers people of color, women, queer and trans* people in Philadelphia. By making original work with and for these communities, we raise them up as prominent and valuable voices within and beyond the world of theatre. We believe that performance is a life-sustaining force for our community, and we are committed to making our work accessible by offering it for free or low-cost in neighborhood spaces and theatrical venues.
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Our shows are designed to activate imagination, self-reflection, and a sense of adventure through the collision of dance, theatre, music, and installation. By following a different curiosity with each project, we invite our audiences and collaborators of all ages to discover something new about themselves and the world we live in. Our work is an investigation of what connects us and separates us, and the inexplicable experience of being alive together.

For more information visit: Ninthplanet.org

Fallawayinto: Corridors of Rememory is presented by Ninth Planet in association with FringeArts, with presenting partnership from Painted Bride Art Center.