Intimate Apparel
play by Nottage
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- In 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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