by Brent Thomas Whiteside

Quadria, South of What We Mean When We Say Rush Gardens follows a young Black girl who just wants to enjoy her summer. Moving through a city shaped by memory, Quadria navigates the Southside of Chicago, where the front gate and the edge of the block mark the limits of her world. As adults around her worry, warn, and watch, the play unfolds in fragments and returns, where geography becomes both origin and echo. As time folds and voices overlap, Quadria traces inheritance through language and the body, asking what it means to come from somewhere constantly renamed, misremembered, or erased; carrying what cannot be fully explained and standing just south of understanding. carrying what cannot be fully explained.

Held in the Parlor at St. Paul & St. Andrew