Hear the inspiration and history behind First Woman’s newest show, Pigfoot Mary’s Harlem Renaissance.
Pigfoot Mary, secretly wealthy from her popular food stand, dreams of California’s skies and awaits news on a property sale that could mark her departure from Harlem. But leaving isn’t easy— her world includes Hot Fingers the Piano Player, The Garveyite, Zora Neale Hurston, and the famous Langston Hughes. Is her legacy in the food and friendships she’s built or in following a new dream?
Inspired by Lillian Harris Dean, one of Harlem’s most successful early entrepreneurs in the 1920s, this lively two actor play bursts with jazz, vibrant characters, and dances of the Harlem Renaissance. We get a taste of literature and history references throughout, and audiences will connect the past to today in a fun, poignant, and educational way.
Daniel Carlton originally wrote and performed Pigfoot Mary Says Goodbye To The Harlem Renaissance for general adult and high school audiences in 2011. This new version of the play is being developed to reach a broader range of young audiences (including elementary grades) and is supported by the TYA Tour Development Collective with contributions from Midwest Trust Center, Wharton Center for Performing Arts, and Walton Arts Center.
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