DeSales' Act 1 stages heartrending, honest "Intimate Apparel"
Act 1 DeSales University Theatres graceful production of Lynn Nottages "Intimate Apparel," is painfully honest, heartrending and ultimately still hopeful.
The touching drama is on the Main Stage of the Labuda Center for the Performing Arts in Center Valley through Oct. 8.
Taking place in New York in 1905, 35-year-old Esther, played with endless stoic strength by Maya Marino Cappello, is a black woman who has been working as a seamstress for 18 years. While other women around her marry and leave, Esther sews lingerie for a variety of clients from wealthy white housewives to prostitutes. She saves money in a quilt and dreams of opening a beauty parlor where black women would be treated like ladies.
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