As part of its Original Work Series, Arts Fort Worth will present Yella Jack by Donna Latham, featuring a live reading by Dragstrip Courage & Artes da la Rosa.
Racism. Misogyny. Classism. Religion vs. science. With murder and mayhem. When most white folks in Memphis up sticks and flee after yellow fever, a “stranger’s disease,” ravages the city, determined residents hunker down to stay alive in the purgatorial city. They form a found family to nurse the sick, keep the city afloat, embrace new opportunities - and scheme revenge.
Jack, a serial-killing embodiment of contagion, collects trophies from victims - earbobs, rings, pearls, and a precious symbol of humanity. When Sister Gregory fails to return after nursing fever folk in Shanty Town, the found family fears the worst. All pray for frost. As ever.
