Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea by Nathan Alan Davis 

A Baltimore Hero’s Journey

February 16-March 3, 2024

The Latrobe Room at The Peale Museum

Tickets $15-35

https://www.sistersfreehold.org/dontrell

Eighteen-year-old Dontrell Jones the Third decides that it is his duty and destiny to venture into the Atlantic Ocean in search of an ancestor lost during the Middle Passage. But his family is not at all ready to abandon its prized son to the waters of a mysterious and haunting past. Blending poetry, humor, wordplay, and ritual, Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea is a present-day hero’s quest exploring the lengths and depths we must go to redeem history’s wrongs.

Set in Baltimore Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea is a true Charm City story with stops at Johns Hopkins, The National Aquarium, and the Eastern Shore. Staged in the round for maximum audience immersion, director Makeima Elise Freeland’s vision puts the emphasis on the rhythm, poetry, and flow of Nathan Alan Davis’ incredible script.

Art by Mirlande Jean-Gilles