March 27 - April 29, 2012

Intimate Apparel

By Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage
Directed by Micheline Chevrier

SYNOPSIS

...I would liken you
To a sleep without dreams
Were it not for your songs. – Langston Hughes

Lyrically told and set in 1905 to a beautiful ragtime soundtrack, Intimate Apparel is a tribute to the resilience and passion of the female spirit.

Surrounded by exquisitely coloured silks, lace and satins, Esther, a talented and hardworking African-American seamstress has spent many years creating elegant lingerie always destined for others - New York society ladies and prostitutes alike.

Consoled by her private dream represented by the savings hidden in the multi-coloured bed quilt laid out in her boarding house room, the simplicity of her hard-earned life is altered when an unexpected fortune arrives with the opportunity to marry.

“...thoughtful, affecting... The play offers poignant commentary on an era.”

– Variety

“Nottage has a gift for weaving the personal with the historical into a vibrant tapestry.”

– Chicago Sun Times

“Few American dramatists aspire to such a panoramic view of the world or manage it so engagingly.”

– American Theater Magazine