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2004 | New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play
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About the Book

Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel is a multi-award-winning play about the empowerment of a black seamstress in New York City in 1905. Esther sews exquisite lingerie for clients who range from wealthy white patrons to prostitutes. She has saved enough to allow her to dream of one day opening a beauty salon for black women, and at thirty-five years old, longs for a husband and a future. When she begins to receive beautiful letters from a lonesome Caribbean man who is working on the Panama Canal, it looks like life may be about to take a different course. Intimate Apparel was first produced by South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California, and Centerstage in Baltimore, Maryland, in 2003, winning the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play and the American Theatre Critics/Steinberg New Play Award. It received its UK premiere at the Theatre Royal Bath in 2014 before transferring to Park Theatre, London, the same year. 'Marvellous... quietly subversive, its recovery of lost lives makes this a defining piece of American drama' — Observer 'Finely wrought... [a] play tinged with love, warmth and lightness' — WhatsOnStage 'Tender, illuminating... this warm, rich, complex tale will stay in the memory for a long time to come' — The Times 'An exceptionally gifted playwright' — New York Times 'A thing of beauty' — Los Angeles Times New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play

About the Author :
Lynn Nottage is a double Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include: Clyde's; Mlima's Tale; Sweat (winner of the Pulitzer Prize); By the Way, Meet Vera Stark; Ruined (winner of the Pulitzer Prize); Intimate Apparel; Fabulation; Crumbs from the Table of Joy; Las Meninas; Mud, River, Stone; Por'knockers and POOF! Nottage was the recipient of the 2010 Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, a MacArthur Foundation 'Genius' Grant, the Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award, the inaugural Horton Foote Prize for Outstanding New American Play (for Ruined), the Lee Reynolds Award and the Jewish World Watch iWitness Award. Her other honours include the Madge Evans and Sidney Kingsley Award, the National Black Theatre Festival's August Wilson Playwriting Award, the 2005 Guggenheim Grant for Playwriting, the 2004 PEN/Laura Pels Award, and fellowships from the Lucille Lortel Foundation, the Manhattan Theatre Club, New Dramatists and New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a co-founder and producer at Market Road Films LLC, a film production company.

Review :
'Marvellous... quietly subversive, its recovery of lost lives makes this a defining piece of American drama' 'Finely wrought... [a] play tinged with love, warmth and lightness' 'Tender, illuminating... this warm, rich, complex tale will stay in the memory for a long time to come' 'An exceptionally gifted playwright' 'A thing of beauty' 'Nottage writes so well about work... each line sharpens a character or sighs the tale forward... tremendous' 'Exquisite... devastating... beautifully crafted... Rarely has someone brushing a hair from someone else's jacket been so exquisitely sexy' 'Compelling and utterly beautiful... a play where a delicate embroidery of words creates a rich tapestry that envelops an audience in the strands of its storytelling... truly entrancing' 'A gorgeous lyrical tapestry full of heartfelt, delicately melodramatic twists... Nottage cherishes quiet humanity first and foremost' 'An utterly gorgeous gem of a play... a drama so rich and compelling that you become invested, heart and soul... a perfectly crafted show: not a stitch wasted'


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781848424371
  • Publisher: Nick Hern Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Nick Hern Books
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 96
  • Width: 129 mm
  • ISBN-10: 184842437X
  • Publisher Date: 03 Jul 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: NHB Modern Plays


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