Playwright and performer Jada S. Dixon is bringing her 60-minute solo theatrical work Black Woman, Indeed to Inglewood for a limited two-night engagement.
The Inglewood Stage Schedule
Performances are scheduled for Friday, September 25, at 7:00 PM, and Sunday, September 27, at 6:00 PM. The production offers audiences an intimate encounter with contemporary performance art and storytelling.
Weaving Community Voices and Personal Memory
The piece is built from a diverse foundation. Dixon draws on personal reflections alongside interviews and conversations with Black and biracial women spanning multiple generations.
On stage, that material transforms. The work combines spoken word, intimate stories, cultural memory, ritual, humor, music, soundscapes, and physical embodiment to examine everyday experiences.
Interrogating Identity and Code-Switching
The performance investigates a wide spectrum of topics. These include childhood, hair, masking, code-switching, professional spaces, beauty politics, endurance, vulnerability, and self-reclamation.
Dixon looks closely at what it means to carry visibility and invisibility simultaneously. She highlights the heavy emotional, physical, and spiritual labor Black women are frequently expected to hold silently.
Shifting Tones and Demanding Accountability
Shifting fluidly between personal and collective experiences, the tone moves across intimate, sharp, humorous, confrontational, vulnerable, ritualistic, and prophetic modes.
Rather than offering an easy resolution or comfort, the production seeks witness, truth, accountability, recognition, and a dedicated space. It aims to let Black women be seen fully in their complexity, humanity, rage, joy, tenderness, contradictions, and ongoing becoming.
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