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The STUDIO



Feb 11, 2011 - Feb 27, 2011



6th Street Playhouse is grateful to Dark Garden for providing the wonderful corsets used in this production of Intimate Apparel. Dark Garden creates beautiful Ready-to-Wear, Made-to-Order and Custom corsets and clothing for both women and men. Using the finest fabrics, Dark Garden's amazingly talented craftspeople skillfully build each corset and couture garment, with designs including: foundation garments to outer garments; classic designs to alternative options for bride and groom; and fantasy to historically-accurate, museum-quality costuming. For more information, visit their website at www.darkgarden.com."

 

By Lynn Nottage (2009 Pulitzer)

Directed by  Bronwen Shears

Set in 1905, this moving story follows Esther, a talented, lonely, unmarried African American seamstress who creates intimate apparel for women of New York society and prostitutes.  Esther's desire for love, affection and a better life weaves her into the complicated pattern of early 20th century society where she finds the common thread that unites and divides.  Intimate Apparel received the 2004 New York Drama Critics Circle and the Outer Critics Circle Awards.

"The play offers poignant commentary on an era when the cut and the color of one's dress - and of course, skin - determined whom one could and could not marry, sleep with, even talk to in public."  -- Variety

CAST:  The cast features Naomi Sample as Esther, Marjorie Crump-Shears as Mrs. Dickson, Erin Hoffman as Mrs. Van Buren, Jeff Cote as Mr. Marks, Rebecca Frank as Mayme and Cameron Stuckey as George Armstrong.

Mother-daughter team up in stage production of 'Intimate Apparel'  (Kimberly Kaido-Alvarez, Sonoma West Staff Writer)