Lyric Stage's SATURDAY NIGHT/SUNDAY MORNING Cast, Creative Team Announced

In the tradition of the moving Intimate Apparel and hilarious By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning is a "fresh, spontaneous, and highly watchable"* play that brings together seven African-American women in a Memphis beauty parlor/boarding house during the waning days of World War II. As they wrestle with the uncertainty of what the future will hold when, and if, their men return, they fight dirty - with each other and with their own fears and desires, uncovering newfound friendship and love. Katori Hall is an exciting new theatrical voice best known for her play The Mountaintop, about Martin Luther King, Jr.'s final night before his assassination.

Spiro Veloudos says of Saturday Night/Sunday Morning: "Audiences often say, 'I love new plays, but I've never heard of this next one that you're doing.' The Lyric Stage is proud to expose Boston audiences to playwrights like David Henry Hwang (Chinglish), Lynn Nottage (By the Way, Meet Vera Stark and Intimate Apparel), and Quiara Alegría Hudes (Water by the Spoonful). Katori Hall certainly belongs in that esteemed company. I'm excited to present her play, which personally introduces me to a time and place I don't know at all (Memphis in the 1940s), and takes me there with skilled storytelling that I find humane and universal."

And director Dawn M. Simmons adds: "Recently, during the Emmy Awards, Viola Davis said, "The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity." This play was born out of that need, and I am grateful to Katori Hall and to the Lyric Stage for providing this wonderful opportunity for all of us involved."

CAST

Meagan Dilworth Taffy

Jasmine Rush* Miss Mary

Cloteal L. Horne Mabel

Jade Guerra Leanne

Keith Mascoll* Buzz

Ramona Lisa Alexander* Dot

Jackie Davis* Jackie

Tasia A. Jones Gladys

Omar Robinson* Bobby

Scenic Design, Mac Young

Costume Design, Elisabetta Polito**

Lighting Design, Ian W. King

Sound Design, Kelsey Jarboe

**United Scenic Artists (USA-Local 829)

Cast in Alphabetical Order:

Ramona Lisa Alexander*, Jackie Davis*, Meagan Dilworth, Jade Guerra, Cloteal L. Horne, Tasia A. Jones, Keith Mascoll*, Omar Robinson*, Jasmine Rush*.

*Member of Actors' Equity Association (AEA)

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