Intimate Apparel

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Viola Davis, in period costume, sits at a vintage sewing machine working with fabric during a scene from the play Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage.

Intimate Apparel

play by Nottage

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Lynn Nottage
Career breakthrough: Intimate Apparel, Ruined, and By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
…breakthrough in theater came with Intimate Apparel, which centers on a Black seamstress in turn-of-the-20th-century New York. The play was inspired by the experience of Nottage’s great-grandmother and addresses the erasure of the Black working class from historical relevance. It had its world premiere in Baltimore in early 2003 before…
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…breakthrough in theater came with Intimate Apparel, which centers on a Black seamstress in turn-of-the-20th-century New York. The play was inspired by the experience of Nottage’s great-grandmother and addresses the erasure of the Black working class from historical relevance. It had its world premiere in Baltimore in early 2003 before…
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