Event

From a Yardie to a Yankee

Born into a poverty stricken Jamaican neighborhood where crime, gangs and political revolution were the norm, Sardia had to step over corpses in the street on her way to school. Then, an unplanned pregnancy added yet more hurdles.
FROM A YARDIE TO A YANKEE is a spellbinding one-woman show starring Jamaican-American actress Sardia Robinson portraying the gripping, gut-wrenching TRUE STORY of her courageous life journey from a poverty ravaged Jamaican tenement to the land of the free and home of the brave. Audiences are placed in the center of the action as Robinson, often as herself, but also portraying key family members and friends involved in her odyssey. She guides the audience through her very real and very dangerous struggles through abject poverty, destruction, hopelessness, dead bodies, premature motherhood, tragic loss, and also hope and the drive to succeed, especially as she embarks on the opportunity of a lifetime to reinvent herself as a true Yardie "Jamaican" to a proud Yankee "American

Check out this review!