HIGHLAND LAKE, NY — At 7 p.m. on Friday, November 22, the North American Cultural Laboratory (NACL) will present a staged reading—with music and dance—of a new work-in-progress by Camille Thomas, titled “Sweet Blood.”

“Sweet Blood” focuses on three free Black Maroon/Taino women in 1727 in Jamaica. They are struggling to thrive in a world that will soon endure chattel slavery due to the emerging sugar revolution. 

The women must decide what they are willing to do to survive the encroaching British invasion of their land, how far they are willing to go to fight against the disease of colonialism, and what it really means to be a revolutionary.

This Deep Space Residency presentation is a partnership between NACL and JACK, a producing theatre in Brooklyn. There “Sweet Blood” will receive its full production.

Camille Thomas’s work interrogates cultural legacies, familial healing, spirituality and ancestral wisdom, and the general kicking and screaming of how Black femmes get free despite the oppressive forces of colonialism, capitalism and white supremacy.

Stay after the presentation for delicious soup and conversation.

Note the new winter start time of 7 p.m.

NACL is located at 110 Highland Lake Rd.

For more information and tickets, visit www.nacl.org.