Sunday Dinner
Caleen Sinnette Jennings
STEW
by Zora Howard
Highlights
90 mins Present Day Role(s) for Black Actor(s) Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
Awards & Recognition
Drama League Award Pulitzer Prize
Finalist! 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Nominee: Two 2020 Drama League Awards, including Outstanding Production of a Play Nominee: Nine 2020 Audelco Awards, including Best Play and Best Playwright
Synopsis
Mama is up early to prepare an important meal and, even with her family on hand to help, time is running short.
Tensions simmer with three generations of Tucker women under one roof, but things come to a boil as the violence hovering around the periphery of their lives begins to intrude upon the sanctity of Mama’s kitchen.
Press Reviews
"★★★★ Subtly haunting new domestic drama... [Howard’s] intimate 90-minute drama... invites a comfortable familiarity, as though we too were in our pajamas at Mama’s kitchen table."
— Time Out NY
"STEW, by Zora Howard, feels familiar without being cliché, delivering a captivating story that’s intimate, funny, and heartbreaking in equal measure."
— The New Yorker
"Howard clearly is an upcoming artist to watch."
— New York Stage Review
Characters
| Character |
|---|
| Nelly A black girl soon to be eighteen. (Also reads ANOTHER VOICE OFFSTAGE) |
| Lillian A black woman in her thirties. (Also reads A VOICE OFFSTAGE) |
| Mama A mature black woman. Don’t ask her age.Note on Casting: All of the women in this play should kind of look alike. |
| Lil’ Mama A black girl in her pre-teens. (Also reads AND A THIRD) |
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Stew - Page 73 Trailer
Publication
STEW is a play written by Zora Howard and published by Samuel French .
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Performance Rights
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