Kiará Johnson sits down with JACKLabs resident artist, Camille Simone Thomas to discuss the creative process and inspiration behind her new play "Sweet Blood" premiering at JACK this November after over a year in development with us. This story of sisterhood and resistance carries the heartbeat of her ancestors’ stories and will fill our theater with history, memory, and power. In “Sweet Blood,” three free Black Maroon/Taino women in Jamaica 1727 struggle to thrive in a world that will soon endure hundreds of years of chattel slavery due to the emerging sugar revolution. They must decide what they are willing to do to survive the encroaching British invasion of their land, how far they are willing to go to fight against the disease of colonialism, and what it really means to be a revolutionary.