This play was the inaugural production of Kempson's theater company, 7 Daughters of Eve Thtr & Perf Co. and premiered at Abrons Arts Center in April 2015.

Sarah Willis originated the role of Sarah in the production's world premiere.

Set in the Great Depression, Sibyl Kempson's Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag is a story of an extended family of sharecroppers who are visited, interviewed, and photographed by two live-in reporters from the "Big City" and also possibly by an ancient Mesopotamian sage. An irrational musical contemplation of the ethical pitfalls of poetic journalism, Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag is inspired by the work of James Agee and Walker Evans as well as Sontag's essay 'On Photography,' the journals of Symbolist painter Odilon Redon, The NEW American Machinists' Handbook, the Ancient Assyrian mythological seals in the JP Morgan Collection, and a couple of Broadway musicals. Featuring music by Ashley Turba and staging by David Neumann.

Photo by Maria Baranova and play cover by Peter Serling.

Purchase a copy of the play here, via 53rd State Press