After producing his beautifully tragic play
Sugar in Our Wounds two years ago, Penumbra Theatre commissioned playwright Donja R. Love for a different sort of play; a fable, a fantasy, "a meditation on enduring love through thee forced parting precipitated by the transatlantic slave trade" (Penumbra's President Sarah Bellamy in a note in the program).
Sugar in Our Wounds tells the doomed love story of two enslaved men in the South shortly before the Emancipation Proclamation, and
When We Are Found is almost like a prequel to the story, as well as a modern-day coda. Running just over an hour, it's a lyrical, fantastical, fluid celebration of unbreakable love.
See it at Penumbra in St. Paul's Rondo neighborhood through May 18.
