“All in all, the show doesn’t yet fully capture the humor and humanity baked into this play’s serious societal dissections; it needs to take a few more healing breaths,” writes Tribune critic Chris Jones.
RjW Mays, Izzie Jones and Stephanie Mattos in"Marys Seacole" by Griffin Theater Company.
A recent biography of the mostly self-trained nurse claimed that Nightingale went out of her way to obstruct Seacole and prevent her from joining her ranks, likely due to a combination of snobbery in the face of the holistically inclined Seacole and Nightingale’s own racial prejudices. In recent years, Seacole has become better known in the U.K., where she now is often heralded alongside Nightingale, still widely seen as the mother of modern nursing.
The 2019 piece, which premiered in New York just before the pandemic, is by no means a conventional biographical portrait: Drury is a postmodernist progressive, more interested in oppressive societal structures than the strength and failings of uncommon individuals, and her play moves backward and forwards in time, probing not just the story of Seacole herself but the whole question of how we view those who nurse and heal us in our hours of need.
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