Shakin' The Mess Outta Miserysp

Shakin’ the Mess Outta Misery tells the story of a young black girl’s coming of age in the South during the sixties. Daughter, the main character and narrator, shares with the audience how the women who raised her, some blood relatives and some not, prepared her for womanhood. Youngblood’s poetic language brings Daughter’s experience to life on the stage.