Apr 26—30, 2023
And So We Walked
DeLanna Studi / USA
A Cherokee daughter's journey of discovery retracing the Trail of Tears.
From Cherokee actress, artist, and activist DeLanna Studi comes And So We Walked, a frank, heartwarming, and surprisingly funny one-woman show illuminating and reckoning with one of the darkest corners of American history.
In Studi’s story, a contemporary Cherokee woman and her father embark on an unforgettable 900-mile journey along the Trail of Tears, retracing the same path her great-great grandparents took in the 1830s during the forced relocation of 17,000 Cherokee people. Studi’s recounting of the trip draws on extraordinary first-person interviews, historical research, and the artist’s personal experiences to paint a portrait of conflict, contradictions, and survival.
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Venue
Emerson Paramount Center
Robert J. Orchard Stage
559 Washington Street
Boston, MA 02111
Dates
Apr 26, 2023 - Apr 30, 2023
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2 hours 10 minutes
including one intermission
Tickets from $25
Ages 13+
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Audio Described Performance
Sun, Apr 30 2:00 pm
Artists
WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY
DeLanna Studi
Originally from Liberty, Oklahoma, DeLanna Studi is a proud citizen of the Cherokee Nation. Her theater credits include the First National Broadway Tour of the Tony Award, and Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County; Off-Broadway’s Informed Consent at Duke Theater on 42nd Street; Gloria: A Life at the Daryl Roth Theatre, and her play And So We Walked made its Off-Broadway debut at Minetta Lane where it was recorded for Audible. Her regional theater credits include Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage at The Armory, Cornerstone Theater Company, Indiana Repertory Theater, and others. Her roles in the Hallmark/ABC mini-series Dreamkeeper and Chris Eyre’s Edge of America have won her numerous awards. She can be seen in the TV series Goliath, General Hospital, Shameless, and Reservation Dogs. DeLanna is the Artistic Director of Native Voices at the Autry, America’s only Equity Native American theater company. DeLanna serves as chair of SAG- AFTRA’s National Native Committee, which has, under her leadership, produced an award-winning film about American Indians in the entertainment industry and created a “Business of Acting” workshop that tours Indian Country. DeLanna won the 2016 Butcher Scholar Award from the Autry Museum of the American West and was a 2022 USA Fellow. And So We Walked is her first play.
The Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts production of
And So We Walked: An Artist’s Journey Along the Trail of Tears
Produced by
Octopus Theatricals
Written and Performed by
DeLanna Studi
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“A POWERFUL, and long overdue, history lesson. A STIRRING WORK. [Studi] performs with such passionate commitment that she was in tears at the curtain call Wednesday night.”
— The Boston Globe
“Intensely powerful”
— Broadway World
“The creators of “And So We Walked” hope it will give audience members something they’ll remember — for a long time.”
— Boston Globe
“Her story forces us to revisit a part of our country’s history that some would rather bury.”
— Portland Mercury
“[And So We Walked is] A Transformative and Spiritual Journey”
— New England Theater Mirror