Directed by Bridget Dougherty |
February 5, 6, 7, 8, 2009 Thursday, Friday, and Saturday performances are at 8:00 PM
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Intimate Apparel contains adult themes
| The appealing heroine of Lynne Nottage’s play is Esther Mills, an African-American seamstress living in New York city. The year is 1905, and Esther’s thirty-fifth birthday has just passed unnoticed by any but her. She has been living in the same boarding house since she was seventeen, too hard-working to learn how to have a good time and too shy—perhaps too smart as well—to attract a man. Nottage shows us her world and her character through conversations with her friends: the society lady and the bordello worker (she makes the same elegant corsets for both), her nosy, hardheaded landlady, and the orthodox Jewish fabric salesman who shares her love of fine materials. The world is a complex and a hard one; Esther is innocent but clearsighted, with a stubborn aspiration for self-respect and happiness. This play is the story of her courtship and marriage. | PRODUCTION STAFF |
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| Director | ||
| Assistant Director | Jennifer Wolfe |
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| Producer | James Fryer |
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| Set Designer | Greg Miller |
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| Costumes | Elizabeth Lauber |
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