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Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w
Erika Dickerson-Despenza
Image: 2021 Public Theater Production (Joan Marcus)
(5 female)
plum – 9, frail but arithmetically sharp African American girl; she is blue-blk–like a plum
marion – 34, cinnamon-colored African American woman; a robust & weary third-generation engine assembly line worker; plum & reesee's mama
reesee – 17, saucy, honey-colored African American young woman infatuated with yemoja; a dancer & aspiring doula (note: raw honey & pasteurized honey assortments vary in hue.)
big ma – 63, thin, high-yellow African American woman; the stern & churchy matriarch of the cooper family whose sweet in the middle
ainee – 37, 34 weeks pregnant African American woman the color of pulled taffy; marion's defiant older sister
*note: all characters can hold a note. here, music comes as easily as breathing.
“Haunting and eye-opening” – The New York Times
“Dickerson-Despenza deserves gratitude for framing such a national issue as an intimately human, and therefore extremely relatable, protest.” – New York Stage Review
“At this neo-Greek tragedy about an American travesty, gasps and tears complete the experience.” – Time Out New York
“Dickerson-Despenza is as gifted a storyteller as Kramer and Shange, and also a more conventional one. To drop yet another famous name into this review, cullud wattah is every bit as drum-tight in its plot as Arthur Miller’s All My Sons.” – The Wrap
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Erika Dickerson-Despenza is a New Orleans-based Blk radical leftist poet-playwright and womanist cultural memory worker. Afrosurrealism, magical realism, narrative re/memory, kinesthetic imagination and Black queer women's interiority and erotic fugitivity are conceptual preo ...
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