Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
by Emily Mann, A. Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth, Sarah L. Delany

Name: Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
Brand: Emily Mann
SKU: 9780822215028
Rating: 4.14 (90 reviews)

Broadway

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Highlights

Female

105 mins 1990s Role(s) for Black Actor(s) All Women Interior Set Period Costumes

Awards & Recognition

Outer Critics Circle Tony Award

Nominee: Three 1995 Tony Awards, including Best Play Nominee: 1995 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play

Synopsis

Having Our Say begins with 103-year-old Sadie Delany and 101-year-old Bessie Delany welcoming us into their home in Mount Vernon, New York.

As they prepare a celebratory dinner in remembrance of their father’s birthday, they take us on a remarkable journey through the last hundred years of our nation’s history, recounting a fascinating series of events and anecdotes drawn from their rich family history and careers as pioneering African-American professionals.

Their story is not simply African-American history or women’s history.

It is our history, told through the eyes of two unforgettable women as they look not only into the past, but also ahead into the twenty-first century.

Based on the acclaimed book of the same title.

Press Reviews

"The most provocative and entertaining family play to reach Broadway in a long time."
— The New York Times

"The daughters of a minister born in slavery and a brilliant woman of mixed ancestry, the story of the Delany sisters begins in Reconstruction and progresses through the rise of Jim Crow, two world wars, the triumphs of black culture during the Harlem Renaissance, the civil and women’s rights movements, up to the present… Mann has staged the three relatively brief acts with a keen eye for the jigsaw fit that a hundred years of living together would bring."
— Variety