Speaking in Tongues: The Chronicles of Babel

Speaking in Tongues offers an incredibly vivid feel of what life was like in Chicago’s sixteen-story housing projects, from the promise of move-in day in the 1960s to the degrading, caged reality, inside city mandated steel mesh that eventually encapsulated the buildings. A collage of memories resonate with truths both humorous and poignant, violent and disturbing, Speaking in Tongues is a rare theatrical experience – first hand insights from an often obscured and dismissed sector of Black American reality. 

Written by Shepsu Aakhu
Directed by Andrea J. Dymond