SEEING VIOLET

By Peter Snoad

Directed by Sandi Clark Kaddy

A collaboration with The Seacoast African American Culture Center, Black Heritage Trail and Strawbery Banke Museum

Spanning centuries and peeling back layers of denial, Seeing Violet is a gripping new drama about memory, reckoning, and the cost of looking away.

A house steeped in history. A ghost in a servant's dress. And the unsettling truths that rise from the walls. When Betsy and John inherit an 18th-century New England home, a series of discoveries—including a manumission paper for an enslaved woman named Violet—shatter their understanding of the past. As Betsy begins to “see” Violet, she’s drawn into a relentless quest to uncover her story—and confront the painful legacy their family and community tried to forget.