Overview
Character Name
Ernestine Crump
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Late Teen
Role Size
Lead
Dancing
Non Dancer
Time & Place
brooklyn, new york, 1950
Analysis
17, African-American. The protagonist in Lynn Nottage’s play Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Ernestine is described as being slightly plump, with the diction of someone who has practiced her speech to sound like a movie star. Upon her mother’s death in her family’s home in
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