The Language of Sight: The David McDonogh Project

Illustration of an eye inf front of a silhouette of two people.

The world premiere of a new play by Judy Tate.

In 1841 New Orleans, a wealthy landowner John McDonogh sent two enslaved young men, David and Washington, to Lafayette College. A member of the Colonization Society, McDonogh’s plan was to educate “his Black family” and then send them back to Africa, where they would become missionaries. Washington left for Liberia in 1843. David had other plans.

Directed by Kim Sykes, co-produced by Richard Koplin ’64 and Russell Arden Koplin.