East Coast Premiere
MANAHATTA
By Mary Kathryn Nagle
Directed by Laurie Woolery
January 24–February 15, 2020
Yale Repertory Theatre, 1120 Chapel Street
About Manahatta
It’s 2008 and securities trader Jane Snake has landed a lucrative job on Wall Street, where her ancestors, the Lenape, were violently removed four hundred years before, when the Dutch “purchased” the island of Manahatta. Past and present intertwine as Jane is caught in the center of a looming mortgage crisis that threatens financial ruin for millions of families––including her own. Suspenseful and sweeping in scope, Manahatta illuminates an interlocking legacy of commercial exploitation and attempts to eradicate the culture of Native people, giving rise to the America we know today.
Yale Repertory Theatre is supported in part by the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development.
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