Congo Square Theatre's latest production, 'How Blood Go,' centers on the bias found in the American health care system.
Yolonda Ross, center, with Marcus Moore and Kristin Ellis, in rehearsal of Congo Square Theatre's latest production, “How Blood Go," at the Steppenwolf Theatre, March 14, 2023.
A conversation with her aunt revealed Adair’s brother Roman, the doctor. The juxtaposition led Langford to pen the play.“One would become a doctor. One would become the victim of doctors,” Langford said. “There’s still more that obviously I’d like to explore. But you have this one person who is experimented upon and killed by the medical establishment and then this other person rises in society as a result of it.
“This dermatologist barely examined me and declared ‘you Black girls wear your hair too tight.’ Langford said. “This man instead of saying ‘she’s over 50, postmenopausal. Let me test for some autoimmune diseases,’ he looked at me and said you Black girls wear your hair too tight and basically gave me subpar health care.”
“It starts in slavery. And the play reflects this because a lot of the medical advances, particularly for women today, were done on enslaved women,” Langford said. “Every time I go to the gynecologist, I say the names of the women who were experimented upon because I am still benefiting from their pain. We all are and don’t know about it.
Ross, concurrently filming the sixth season of the Showtime series “The Chi,” will also host film screenings, panel discussions and community conversations led by health care professionals during the play’s run. Community engagement is part of Congo Square’s Celebration of Healing
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