Harriet Jacobs Presented by  Perishable Theatre Appearing at  Perishable Theatre Following a critically-acclaimed, sold-out run in Cambridge MA, Harriet Jacobs, the astonishing new play from Lydia R. Diamond, now comes to Providence’s Perishable Theatre in a chamber production produced by Cambridge’s Underground Railway Theater, in collaboration with The Providence Black Repertory Company. To evade a predatory master and protect her children, Jacobs hid in an attic crawlspace for seven years before eventually escaping north to freedom. This unsparing and poetic coming-of-age story is based on her groundbreaking 1861 autobiography, “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.” read more >