The Marsh Shares Compelling Stories in SOLO ARTS HEAL Series
This Wednesday series features performance excerpts, talkbacks, and Q&A.by BWW News Desk
The Marsh presents an inspiring lineup of individuals sharing deeply personal journeys in the MarshStream Solo Arts Heal series, discussing emotionally charged topics that range from facing dementia to sexual violence, jumping into climate change activism to dating someone with a psychiatric disorder, and more.
This Wednesday series features performance excerpts, talkbacks, and Q&A with Heather Harpham (March 17), Jackson Nogahl (March 24), Gabrielle Lennon (March 31), Melinda Buckley (April 7), and Joanna Rush (April 14).
For more information, the public may visit www.themarsh.org/marshstream.
Content warning: sexual assault
To kick off Women’s History Month, on March 3, The Marsh Theater held a livestreamed conversation with Dipti Mehta about her play, “Honour: Confessions of a Mumbai Courtesan.” Mehta shared a few clips from the play performed pre-pandemic and discussed her approach to the storyline and characters as both the playwright and the solo performer. The conversation was a part of The Marsh’s Solo Arts Heal program, a series of weekly free conversations with special guests providing healing education and advocacy.
Zooming in from Mumbai, India, Mehta launched right into the play’s context and motivations. Living in Mumbai, she explained, she would occasionally take a specific bus route that would travel “from the richest to the poorest” neighborhoods in the city. This was how she was first exposed to Mumbai’s Red Light District, and was inspired to write a play about a 16-year-old girl whose mother is a prostitute and is teaching her to