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before you go: an Offering

by Sharon Bridgforth

A mother-daughter bond held in fragments

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Awards & Recognition

  • Author recognition

    Sharon Bridgforth — Windham Campbell Prize in Drama winner

    The metadata identifies Sharon Bridgforth as the winner of Yale's Windham Campbell Prize in Drama.

AlbakiReads Editorial

A mother-daughter bond held in fragments

Sharon Bridgforth’s work brings together memories, prayers, letters, and dreams as she considers her relationship with her aging mother and the question of what kind of mother she herself was. The book also includes prompts and invitations centered on conjuring and release, asking readers to approach wounded places in their own hearts as part of a healing process. Part of the Sledgehammer Series, it sits within a project that explores how theater can take visual form on the page. The combination of personal reflection and reader-directed exercises gives the work both an intimate subject and an interactive dimension.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Black and queer theater and writing about family relationships.
  • Those seeking a reflective work that incorporates prompts and invitations for personal exploration.
  • Readers curious about theater presented visually on the page.

Themes

Mother-daughter relationshipsMemory and reflectionHealing and releaseTheater on the page

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Book overview

United States Artists Fellow, winner of Yale's Windham Campbell Prize in Drama, and Associate Company Member at Pillsbury House + Theatre (PHT) Sharon Bridgforth queerly/explores her relationship with her aging mother as she seeks to recover, understand, hold and heal the love that she feels for her. This journey drops Sharon into the question of "what kind of mother was I?" in before you go: an Offering.

 

Made of glimmers of memories - prayers/letters/and dreams. Additionally Sharon offers the reader prompts and invitations to activate conjure/release which are meant to be invitations for the reader to walk towards the broken places in their hearts for the sake of creating paths to their own healing.

 

This book is a part of the Sledgehammer Series with The Impossible Plays of Migdalia Cruz by Migdalia Cruz. The Sledgehammer Series lives within Tripwire's mission, with a specific focus on challenging how theater can live visually on the page.

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