Sacred Space: The Play

In 2005, Bahamian artist Antonious Roberts created Sacred Space; an art site near Clifton Pier that made use of rooted casuarina trees to create sculptures depicting slave women looking back towards Africa. The site which bordered a former sugar plantation, the Whylly Plantation, was a landing site for some of the first African slaves that were brought to The Bahamas. Sacred Space was well received by the Bahamian public at that time and has now given birth to a play of the same name.

'Sacred Space' is a three-act play written by Rupert Missick Jr and inspired by the sculptures of Bahamian artist Antonius Roberts at the Clifton Heritage Park.

Loosely based on the lives of five slave women who lived on the Whylly Plantation at Clifton, the play explores issues of the desire for mental and physical freedom and the concept that all life is "sacred space". The play's first run was on November 21, 2008

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