3 March - 24 March, 2023
Director: Ti Ames
A warm and touching memory play about a Black family, told through the eyes of 17-year-old Ernestine Crump as she comes of age in Brooklyn in 1950.
Christiana Mitchell as Ernestine Crump
Nik Scott as Ernestine Crump
Jean Edwards as Ermina Crump
Simeon Brown as Godfrey Crump
Ty Daniels as Lily Ann Green
Stephanie Finn as Gerte Crump
Sharon Millner as U/S Lily Ann Green
Scott Dunn - Production Stage Manager
Will Slusher - Scenic Designer
Heather Hutton - Lighting Designer
Maggie Rogers - Props Designer/Set Dresser
Martha Adekunle - Costume Designer
Ivan Orr - Sound Designer
Andrew Bryce - Dialect Coach
Laura Rikard - Intimacy Coordinator
Recently widowed Godfrey Crump has moved his family north to Brooklyn from Pensacola. His daughters escape their isolation by going to the cinema, while Godfrey finds solace in radio evangelist Father Divine. Things change quickly when Aunt Lily, a free-spirited communist, bursts into their home.
“The 1950s was such a moment in American history in which I felt so much change…everything I had seen was in black and white. And I wanted to make it colorful. So I started writing CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY to try to understand that era.” —Lynn Nottage, Playwright
“Imagine a pairing…between Tennessee Williams and Lorraine Hansberry, a memory play about a black family, a glass menagerie in the sun” — The NY Post
CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY is a Live Arts Mentor/Apprentice production. Click here to learn more. We are thrilled to engage a team of talented teen apprentices:
