The groundbreaking project by and for nurses, The Nurse Antigone presents dramatic readings of Sophocles' Antigone on Zoom -- featuring professional actors and a chors of frontline nurses -- to help frame powerful, guided discussions about the unique challenges faced by nurses.
Antigone, an ancient play about a young woman who puts everything on the line to do what she believes is right, dramatizes the heavy cost of silencing and marginalizing caregivers, espeically during times of crises. By performing Sophocles' play for diverse audiences, including nuress as well as conerend citizens, The Nurse Antigone aims to gerate compassion, awareness, connection, and much-needed healing, while celerating and advocating for nurses at this critical uncture in the history of their profession.
Featuring performances by Margaret Atwood (Author of The Handmaid's Tale), Frankie Faison (The Wire), Jessie Buckley (Women Talking), Jumaane Williams (Public Advocate NYC), Ato Blankson-Wood (When They See Us), Marjolaine Goldsmith (Dress), Jeannette (Jeannie) Meyer, (Clinical Nurse Specialist for Palliative Care at UCLA Health, Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital) Jason Kirchick (MEDSURG-RN University of Vermont Medical Center), Olivia Williams-Coombs (RN, RM, CEN, University Hospital Of the West Indies, Jamaica), Adrian Brown (Doctor of Nursing Practice, Family Nurse Practitioner Student, Pacific Lutheran University), and Alysia Erin Pack (Adjunct Faculty Instructor, Old Dominion University- School of Nursing).
Co-presented by Theater of War Productions, the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, and the Resilient Nurses Initiative - Maryland.
Thursday, Feb. 23
5 - 7 p.m. ET
Zoom
FREE
Co-hosted by Sigma