One-Woman Show

The JDTLab at Guild Hall will stage “Door of No Return,” a one-woman show written and performed by Nehassaiu deGannes, on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Kelli Wicke Davis will direct the free program, which has a new score by Janice Lowe.

Ms. deGannes gives voice to experiences of immigration, displacement, enslavement, and resistance through the perspectives of more than a dozen characters drawn from history, memory, and present-day interviews. 

At home in both classical and contemporary productions, Ms. deGannes has been cast as Cordelia in the Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s “King Lear,” the nurse in “Equus” with Alec Baldwin, Catherine in “Proof” at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, R.I., and Lady Capulet in “Romeo and Juliet” at the Stratford Festival in Ontario.