Intimate Apparel
by Lynn Nottage
Nov 1-3, 8-10, 2018 at 7:30pm
The time is 1905, the place New York City, where Esther, a black seamstress, lives in a boarding house for women and sews intimate apparel for clients who range from wealthy white patrons to prostitutes. By way of a mutual acquaintance, she begins to receive beautiful letters from a lonesome Caribbean man named George who is working on the Panama Canal. However, Esther's heart seems to lie with the Hasidic shopkeeper from whom she buys cloth, and his heart with her, but the impossibility of the match is obvious to them both, and Esther consents to marry George. When George arrives in New York, however, he turns out not to be the man his letters painted him to be, and he absconds with Esther's savings, frittering it away on whores and liquor. Deeply wounded by the betrayal, but somehow unbroken, Esther returns to the boarding house determined to use her gifted hands and her sewing machine to refashion her dreams and make them anew from the whole cloth of her life's experiences.
Director: DENNIS WHITEHEAD-DARLING
Scenic Designer: KENTON JONES
Lighting Designer: ZOEY SMITH
Projection Designer: TAO WANG
Sound Designer: ANTHONY PELLECCHIA
Costume Designer: JEN GILLETTE
Props: KAREN ARREDONDO
Technical Director: NICHOLAS JACKSON
Stage Manager: RAVYN MEADOR
Esther: SIMMERY BRANCH
George: NAIVELL STIEB
Mayme: EBONI CAIN
Ms. Dixon: JASMINE ROBERTSON
Mrs. Van Buren: HEATHER GROOM
Mr. Marks: TOBY DAVIS