Intimate Apparel Dietz Theatre Date : 2/26/2009 - 3/14/2009
Intimate Apparel
A drama by Lynn Nottage
Directed by Karen Sabo
Feb. 26 to March 14, 2009
Generously sponsored by
MARGARET J. DEITZ
A woman’s elusive pursuit of love and independence in the early 1900s takes center stage in Lynn Nottage’s drama, Intimate Apparel.
Esther Mills, a 35-year-old African-American woman, sews beautiful corsets for a living. Her clients reflect the diversity of 1905 New York City, ranging from Fifth Avenue socialites to lower-class prostitutes.
Smart, sensible and ambitious, Esther holds fast to her dreams of opening a beauty parlor in Harlem and finding a husband even though her prospects for love seem remote to her meddling landlady, Mrs. Dickson. In spite of Mrs. Dickson’s advice to marry respectably, Esther begins a courtship by mail with George, a West Indian man working on the construction of the Panama Canal.
With the odds stacked against her, and trapped in the socially stratified world of turn-of-the-century New York, Esther struggles to keep her dreams of love and marriage alive during a time of great cultural and economic change.
(CONTAINS ADULT LANGUAGE AND CONTENT.)
Tonya Broach plays Esther Mills in Intimate Apparel.
The Cast
Esther TONYA BROACH
Mrs. Dickson TABA ALEEM
Mrs. VanBuren SHANNON BROWN
Mr. Marks JASEN J. SMITH
Mayme TINA THOMPKINS
George BRIAN ARMOUR
Tina Thompkins plays Mayme and Tonya Broach plays Esther in Intimate Apparel.
