Intimate apparel: Fabulation or The re-education of Undine

✍ Scribed by Lynn Nottage

• Book ID: 100193904
• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
• Year: 2012;2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 110 KB
• Edition: 1st ed
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1559367083

✦ Synopsis

"Lynn Nottage's work explores depths of humanness, the overlapping complexities of race, gender, culture and history--and the startling simplicity of desire--with a clear tenderness, with humor, with compassion." --Paula Vogel, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright

Intimate Apparel : "Thoughtful, affecting new play . . . with seamless elegance."--Charles Isherwood, Variety

Fabulation : "Robustly entertaining comedy . . . with punchy social insights and the firecracker snap of unexpected humor."--Ben Brantley, The New York Times

With her two latest plays, "exceptionally gifted playwright" (New York Observer) Lynn Nottage has created companion pieces that span 100 years in the lives of African American women. Intimate Apparel is about the empowerment of Esther, a proud and shy seamstress in 1905 New York who creates exquisite lingerie for both Fifth Avenue boudoirs and Tenderloin bordellos. In...