Pulitzer winning playwright Lynn Nottage takes us on a 70-year journey through the life of Vera Stark, a headstrong Black maid and budding actress – a funny and irreverent look at racial stereotypes during the Golden Age of Hollywood!
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
By: Lynn Nottage
Directed by: Michelle Aguillon
Assistant Director: Jenny Fielding
Featuring: Lisa Miller-Gillespie, Angela Courtney Rossi, Trevor Gerard Frederick, Vicki Lee, Shani Farrell, Dustin Teuber, and Jon Nuquist
A 70-year journey through the life of Vera Stark, a headstrong Black maid and budding actress – a funny and irreverent look at racial stereotypes during the Golden Age of Hollywood!
Vera Stark works as a maid to Gloria Mitchell, an aging movie star grasping at her fading career. Rubbing shoulders with studio heads and movie directors, Vera lands a prominent role in a costume epic starring Gloria, but it is Vera’s portrayal of a slave turns that out to be groundbreaking and career-making. However, decades later, scholars and film buffs still argue about Vera’s legacy in Hollywood, and the impact that race had on her controversial career. Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage uses the pace and satire of 1930s movie comedies to take you on a seventy-year journey through Vera’s life and the cultural climate that shaped her.
Friday and Saturdays at 8pm, Sunday 5/28 at 2pm.
Tickets are $25, $23 for Seniors/Students, and can be purchased online at www.qptheater.com/box-office/
Or for reservations call the QP Box Office at (781) 942-2212. Checks and cash only at the door.
Phone: (781) 942-2212
2023/05/19 - 2023/06/03
Quannapowitt Players
55 Hopkins Street, Reading, MA 01867