Wool Studio Theater presents INTIMATE APPAREL

New York, 1905, Esther, a black seamstress, lives in a boarding house where she sews intimate apparel for clients ranging from wealthy white patrons to prostitutes. As the other denizens of the boarding house marry and move away, Esther remains, lonely and longing. Through a mutual acquaintance, she begins to receive beautiful letters from a lonesome Caribbean man working on the Panama Canal.

But Esther's heart seems to lie with the Hasidic shopkeeper from whom she buys cloth, and his heart with her, but the impossibility of the match is obvious to them both. The play offers poignant commentary on an era when the cut and color of one's dress-and of course, skin-determined whom one could and could not marry, even talk to in public.

Directed by Gary Barker, starring Jacqueline Thomspon, Jim Butz, Linda Kennedy, Chauncy Thomas, Andrea Purnell, Julie Layton. Several talkbacks will be scheduled after performances. Dates are TBA. Check website for updates. Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays at 7:30pm; Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm.

Intimate Apparel - January 26-February 11

Wool Studio Theater, A&E Building, JCC Staenberg Family Complex, 2 Millstone Campus Dr, Creve Couer, MO 63146

http://jccstl.com/arts-ideas/new-jewish-theatre

$39.50-41.50

(314) 442-3283

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