Crowns
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Dec 3, 2002
Closed Jan 5, 2003
Opened Dec 3, 2002
Closed Jan 5, 2003
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
A new play with gospel music, Crowns is based on Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry's collection of oral histories and photographs of African-American women in their church hats. From Mother Shaw, who wears her finest hat while shopping in a store that used to be "whites only," to Mabel, self-proclaimed Hat Queen and creator of the Hat-Queen Rules, the play celebrates the unifying force, the fusion of faith and fashion, and enduring power of wearing "The Hat." Adapted and directed by Regina Taylor, the play features Lillias White.
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Hats are making a big comeback -- in the theater, at least. Two current Off-Broadway shows feature chapeaux in a very grand style. In Far Away, Caryl Churchill's play at New York Theatre Workshop, the crafting of hats makes an ironic statement about wild creativity used to political effect in a dying society. At the Second Stage, however, hats aren't used as a means to make a point; they are the point. Regina Taylor has written and directed a play called Crowns, based upon the best selling book of the same name by Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry that charts the relationship between hats and the African-American women who wore them (and wear them still). Make no mistake, Taylor pulls of[...]