Revisiting Scrapmettle's living archive: 'Survival Stories'
On-stage documentation of Survival Stories. Images of play courtesy of Scrapmettle Entertainment and The Shaw Photography Group.
Scrapmettle Entertainment Group took a breast cancer awareness event in a historically Black neighborhood as an opportunity to explore this subject on stage. The theatre and performing arts collective—based out of Greensboro, NC—asked women to share their stories that the group later translated into a site-specific play: Survival Stories.
Directed by Asabi Howard, the play visualized and personified these women’s “fortitude and attitude about surviving this disease” while creating a living archive of their community’s stories. Scrapmettle collaboratively wrote and produced this play to accompany “The Gift of Life Block Walk” hosted by Sisters Network, a nonprofit committed to increasing attention to the devastating impact that breast cancer has in Black communities.
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ABOVE: On-stage documentation. Images of play courtesy of Scrapmettle Entertainment and The Shaw Photography Group.