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Crumbs from the Table of Joy and Other Plays
Lynn Nottage
Crumbs From The Table Of Joy
by Lynn Nottage
Off-Broadway
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Synopsis
From the pen of the winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama!
The Crump family is adrift and in trouble.
Recently widowed Godfrey is under the spell of Sweet Father Divine, while his teen daughters, Ernestine and Ermina, immerse themselves in the illusions of Hollywood to escape racial prejudice in 1950 s Brooklyn.
But things change quickly when free-spirited Aunt Lily shows up: Godfrey remarries a white woman, Ermina discovers boys, and Ernestine is torn between communism and bebop!
Press Reviews
"A complex, thought-provoking play."
— Chicago Sun-Times
"Crumbs has a voice all its own. It also has one of the most jaw-dropping Act I endings you’ll ever see."
— New York Stage Review
Characters
| Character |
|---|
| Ermina Crump 15, African American |
| Godfrey Crump 35, African American |
| Lily Ann Green 35, African American |
| Gerte Shulte 30, German |
| Ernestine Crump 17, African American |
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Publication
Publisher Dramatists Play Service
Year 1998
Binding Paperback
Edition 60174th
Pages 72
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822215721
ISBN-10 0822215721
LCCN 2006491304
LCC PS3564.O795 C78 1998
Crumbs From The Table Of Joy is a American play written by Lynn Nottage and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York (1998).
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