![]() ![]() The resulting pain, infection, odour and skin problems left many women of that era invalids, even pariahs. ![]() Sims sought to repair horribly disabling complications of protracted childbirth -including vesicovaginal fistulas - that cause constant leaking of urine and faeces. Now, playwright Charly Evon Simpson offers a fictionalized retelling of Sims’s egregious practices in Behind the Sheet. The drug did not allay their pain, and some historians think that they became addicted to it. In the 1840s, the Alabama physician James Marion Sims conducted infamous experimental gynaecological surgery exclusively on black women, bound to the surgical table by chattel slavery, physical force and opium. Credit: Jeremy Danielīehind the Sheet Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York City. Left to right: Nia Calloway, Joel Ripka, Naomi Lorrain, Stephen James Anthony and Cristina Pitter in Behind the Sheet. ![]()
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