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Start: There you have it! “They white,”...

Ernestine Crump

Crumbs from the Table of Joy

Lynn Nottage

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Gender
Female
Playing Age
Late Teen
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Prologue
Time & Place
Brooklyn, New York, 1950, fall.
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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Start: There you have it! “They white,” with those two words he can dismiss our wants, our desires, even our simplest pleasures.

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End: Can hear the television in the Friedlanders’ apartment. We sit and listen to all the white laughter. Seems to us only white folks can laugh on Sundays.

For full, extended monologue see:
Nottage, Lynn, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Dramatists Play Service, 1998, p. 9.

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