Dinner with Dinah - Act I: Dinner + Act II: Performance

Why we picked it

Dinner with Dinah is an immersive dinner and performance created, written, and co-directed by Trapeta B. Mayson, and co-directed by Yolanda Wisher, unfolding on the grounds of Stenton Museum in Germantown. The work centers Dinah, an African-descended woman who was enslaved and later indentured at Stenton in the 18th century. Long known through fragments of archival record and oral tradition, Dinah is reimagined here as a fully dimensional woman—mother, grandmother, laborer, beloved, and ancestor. This is not a reenactment. The experience unfolds in two acts with a prelude. Act I is a shared, family-style outdoor meal shaped by poetic prompts and guided conversation. Act II transitions into a performance in which multiple performers embody Dinah across interior states and moments through poetry, movement, and music, all on land Dinah would have known intimately. IF YOU BUY TICKETS TO Act I + Act II (this event), you do NOT need to purchase ticket