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Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel

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The contemporary playwright Lynn Nottage always pens strong female characters and in Intimate Apparel it was not the exception. The play, which is set in 1905, revolves around a black seamstress named Esther Mills, who fabricates elegant pieces of lingerie for ladies pertaining to the bourgeois of Fifth avenue, as well as ladies who work during the night, strictly with different men every night—also known as ladies of the night. Her marriage to George Armstrong, which begins through letters that Esther ask her friends to write for her, since she is illiterate, fails. Meanwhile, an unlikely romances bloom between Esther and Mr. Marks, who is an Orthodox Jew. I thought the performance was stunning from beginning to end for different factors.
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