Mary Seacole lived a remarkable, barrier-shattering life inherently dramatic enough to be ripe for stage treatment. Born in 1805 Jamaica under British colonial rule, she eventually travelled the ...

Mary Seacole statue: Why Florence Nightingale fans are angry the Crimean War nurse is being commemorated. It should be a symbol of pride in a black British heroine.

A powerful visual leitmotif in “Marys Seacole” is the real Mary’s mother, who rarely leaves the stage or stops walking. She doesn’t say anything, but Karen Kandel makes her an awesome ...

But even as plain Mary Seacole (which isn’t plain at all), Ms. Bernstine is in touch with the possibilities of other times, other places and other people she might be.

The six women of Marys Seacole are all delivering fierce, finely calibrated performances, from Bernstine’s wry, commanding, charismatic Mary — the show’s steel-cored anchor — to Taylor’s ...

Quincy Tyler Bernstine plays the real-life 19th-century Jamaican-born healer in 'Marys Seacole,' the new experimental drama by Jackie Sibblies Drury, author of the acclaimed 'Fairview.

Kim Bey, front, as Mary Seacole and Tina Fabrique as Duppy Mary, in Mosaic Theater's production of “Marys Seacole,” at Atlas Performing Arts Center through May 29.

A 10ft statue of Mary Seacole (pictured) has been planned in London - but much of her fame is the undeserved product of myth-making, writes PROFESSOR LYNN MCDONALD.

Felicia Kwaku, a nurse leader in London, has been chosen to lead the Mary Seacole trust. She succeeds lawyer Dr Trevor ...

Directed by Leyla Levi DRA ‘23 and originally written by Jackie Sibblies Drury ‘03, the play is i nspired by the real life of Mary Seacole — a Black British-Jamaican nurse who cared for soldiers ...

You’ve likely heard of Florence Nightingale but perhaps not Mary Seacole, a similarly courageous nurse and humanitarian who was born in 1805 in Jamaica (she was the daughter of a white Scottish ...

After her husband died, Mary Seacole’s life began to take shape. Seacole honed her nursing skills during Jamaica’s deadly cholera epidemic of 1851, which, at its height, killed 200 people a day.