In a world of economic uncertainty, institutional collapse, and increasing violence, who is vulnerable? Who is erased? Whose voices are silenced? Through butoh, spoken word, found audio, and scripted text, the cast of Malicious Compliance channel and dismantle the Greek classic, Trojan Women, to explore what it is to be a casualty of the culture war.

Grace to Accra is a musical theater work inspired by the life and work of Dr. William Edward Du Bois. It focuses on the intellectual titan’s final years in Ghana as he reflects on his long life and strives to finish one of his most ambitious projects: the Encyclopedia Africana.

This multi-media performance follows one man’s journey, and that of his family members, through time as he examines the trauma and joy that has formed his personal and collective history. Using layers of quilts — both actual textiles and video mapping projections — and percussion-based storytelling, this performance will take audiences on a sensory journey through time and space. With a nod to its namesake, Slaughterhouse-Five, Daughter House 5 explores the way that trauma can influence our grasp on time, allowing us to speed it up, slow it down, or even travel through it.