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Adept at capturing the experience of the upper-middle-class African-American, Diamond lays out two families' worth of secrets in this precise play. With only six characters, she constructs a vivid weekend of crossed pasts and uncertain but optimistic futures. On Martha's Vineyard, an affluent African-American family gathers in their vacation home, joined by the housekeeper's daughter, who is filling in for her mother. The family patriarch is a philandering physician; one of his sons has followed in his footsteps, while the other, after numerous false starts in a variety of careers, is a struggling novelist. Both bring along their current girlfriends, to meet the family for the first time. With such highly--perhaps over--educated vacationers, the conversation and the barbs fly, on subjects ranging from race to economics to politics. But there is also more than enough human drama, which reaches its climax when an old family secret comes out. Through lively exchanges and simmering wit, the family tackles a history filled with complications both within the family and in the outer world.
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Sensitive "Spoon" LeVay and his brother "Flip" see their weekend at the family home on Martha's Vineyard as a perfect opportunity to introduce their girlfriends to their upper class African American parents. Instead, they stumble into a domestic powder keg that exposes secrets of prejudice, hypocrisy and adultery. This fantastic new play comes from the pen of one of the country's most provocative new playwrights!
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An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Justine Bateman, Dule Hill, Tinashe Kajese, Carl Lumbly, Terrell Tilford and Michole Briana White.
How well do you know your family? Your social class? Your race? Sensitive Kent Spoon LeVay and his slick brother Flip see their weekend at the family home on Marthas Vineyard as the perfect opportunity to introduce their girlfriends to their upper-middle class African American parents. Instead they stumble into a domestic powder-keg that exposes secrets of prejudice, hypocisy and adultery.
Stick Fly comes from the pen of one of Americas most engaging new playwrights, Lydia R. Diamond. Starring Carl Lumbly, Justine Bateman and Dule Hill.
Stick Fly comes from the pen of one of Americas most engaging new playwrights, Lydia R. Diamond. Starring Carl Lumbly, Justine Bateman and Dule Hill.
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- PublisherNorthwestern University Press
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0810125358
- ISBN 13 9780810125353
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