In Intimate Apparel clothes are the nexus between class and communities. Set in 1905 New York, Esther, a solitary seamstress crafts lingerie in a grotty boarding-house. Two of her clients, a sex ...
She set about excavating all she could about Ethel, but there wasn’t much in print about Black women of the time. She knew Ethel was born in Barbados in 1870, arrived, alone, in New York City at 18 ...
Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel is about fabric, its texture, feeling and effect. And she has fashioned a play where a delicate embroidery of words creates a rich tapestry that envelops an audience in ...
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