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.

Dates:

performance: February 05, 2009 8:00 PM

February 06, 2009 8:00 PM

February 07, 2009 8:00 PM

February 08, 2009 2:00 PM

February 12, 2009 8:00 PM

February 13, 2009 8:00 PM

February 14, 2009 8:00 PM

February 15, 2009 2:00 PM

February 19, 2009 8:00 PM

February 20, 2009 8:00 PM

February 21, 2009 8:00 PM