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We create original, multidisciplinary performances that illuminate the painful truths and joyful triumphs of the underheard in order to catalyze collective healing and a more just society.

<p fr-original-style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 0px; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span fr-original-style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit;" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit;">The Road to Damascus<span fr-original-style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit;" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit;">&nbsp;is a solo performance piece written and performed by Kathy Randels and directed by Odile Del Giudice that uses the story of Saul/Paul&rsquo;s conversion experience as described in Acts 9 as a metaphor for awakening to the persecutorial nature of white supremacy in the USA. &nbsp;It also weaves in a modern retelling of&nbsp;<span fr-original-style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit;" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit;">Little Red Riding Hood&nbsp;<span fr-original-style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit;" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit;">to explore how sexual trauma leads some women to cause harm to themselves and others.<p fr-original-style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 0px; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <p fr-original-style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 0px; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span fr-original-style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit;" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit;">&nbsp;<p fr-original-style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 0px; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span fr-original-style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit;" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit;">Designers Diane Baas (lighting), Kevin Griffith (set), Steve Gilliland (sound and music), and Shawn Hall along with stage manager Tricia Anderson, weave their unique artforms into this multidisciplinary performance experience. &nbsp;The piece is drawn from Randels&rsquo; experiences growing up in the church as the offspring of two generations of Southern Baptist preachers; teaching theater to and learning from the experiences of currently and formerly incarcerated women at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women for 24 years; a decade of dialogue and action with her home church investigating the ways in which faith communities can participate in long-needed criminal legal system reform in our state; and Del Giudice&rsquo;s decade of work in identifying and addressing collective trauma.<p fr-original-style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 0px; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <p fr-original-style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 0px; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span fr-original-style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit;" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit;">&nbsp;<p fr-original-style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 0px; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span fr-original-style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit;" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit;">We invite you to come witness this &ldquo;Damascus experience&rdquo; &ndash; and perhaps share your own &ndash; as a way to initiate or deepen the conversation around identifying the harm that has led to our current, dysfunctional legal system; and to collectively find ways to actively repair and end that harm.<p fr-original-style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 0px; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <p fr-original-style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 0px; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span fr-original-style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit;" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit;">Suggested donation is $20, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. &nbsp;Please send questions to (504) 826-7783 or <a fr-original-style="text-decoration-color:currentcolor;-webkit-user-select:auto;box-sizing:inherit;" href="mailto:boxoffice@artspotproductions.org" style="text-decoration-color:currentcolor;-webkit-user-select:auto;box-sizing:inherit;">boxoffice@artspotproductions.org</a><p fr-original-style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" style="line-height: 1.38; 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Shakt&aacute;lkoh: A Play about Ethnicity and Mental Illness&nbsp;by Jeffery U. Darensbourg, directed by Kathy Randels, and featuring Jenny Mercein, Joseph B. Darensbourg, and Jeffery U. Darensbourg. This event is part of &quot;New Orleans&quot; Fringe Fest 2026 and will take place at the Mudlark Public Theatre at 1200 Port Street. Content note: this work contains discussions of genocide, suicide, abuse, and related topics, even if these discussions are sometimes humorous. It is not for kids.

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