Dinner with Dinah

Dinah, an enslaved Black woman who was brought to the site of the Stenton Mansion in Germantown as dower property c.1753, was manumitted in 1776 by William Logan. An oral tradition that first appeared in the 19th century recounts Dinah’s role in saving Stenton from being burned by the British in November of 1777, and she is documented in correspondence and diaries kept by Deborah Norris and George Logan, who lived at Stenton from c.1780-1838. Dinner with Dinah will be performed outdoors at Stenton in two evenings, for approximately 75-100 attendees each night. Act 1 of the show is a three-course meal accompanied by poetic prompts for discussion and Act 2, a performance of commissioned choreopoems by Trapeta Mason.

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