Director’s Notes:
Precious Metals: Beauty in Brokenness
I am beyond excited to be reunited with this wonderful cast, crew! The beauty about this piece is that it evolves and yet it’s timeless. Every time words of affirmation are spoken I believe cycles and bonds of insecurity, fear and hopelessness are broken. I invite you to lean in close, listen and hear these powerful stories of eight precious women. Be captured by the rhythm & celebration, encouraged by the inevitable joy of freedom and challenged by the reality of painful processes. Precious Metals, pushes back darkness and turns on delight. I am humbled and honored to be a conduit of it’s energy to do just that yet again. Precious Metals also encouraged me to tell my own story and I hope that you will find the courage to share yours! The world needs to hear it! Believe that you have a seat at the table as well! Believe in the process, that while you are blooming, evolving and finding the strength to share… you are enough, every day and more.
In His Grip,
Tabitha Matthews
Penny's Kids
Someone said, there is genius and boldness in simply beginning to do the thing you narrowly dream is possible. It has been my great privilege witnessing my friend and co-creator, Tabitha Matthews boldly move towards generational healing by telling her grandmother's sublimely painful story of wrestling with mental health disorder. Too often mental health diseases are stygmitized, particularly among people of color in underresourced communities. Told from the perspectives of adult children, Penny's Kids is a living testimony of how challenging life circumstances can eventually yield beautiful results in the lives of those who follow. I imagine Penny somewhere in the "great cloud of witnesses" singing and dancing with her children, and their children, celebrating that her story is being told. She is an important woman. Her story is important. I hope telling it help others, whose lives are touched by mental illness, realize they are not alone on the planet. Here's to you, Penny! May the joyful memories of your life surpass the sorrows.
Shining delight,
Carolyn Harrison
