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Description: Hot DustnnPerformed at Incubator Arts Project, New York, January-February 2013.nnCast in this sample: Sharla Meese.nnEqual parts séance, sermon, and dance, Hot Dust is a sympathetic and visceral examination of two strains of American religious fervor, both led by charismatic women: 19th Century Spiritualism and the Pentecostalism of the 1920s. We illustrated these movements with a single character, Sister.nnThis excerpt, from Act One, sees Sister as a Spiritualist medium performing a mass séan
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