Directed by Joe Morton, the cast featured Kisha Howard (Ernestine), Nicole Leach, Daryl Edwards (Godfrey), Ella Joyce and Stephanie Roth.
[1] Ben Brantley, in his review for The New York Times wrote that the play "has an adolescent quality, suggestive of a playwright still struggling to emerge from studied imitativeness into her own mature voice.
The New York Post wrote: "Imagine a pairing ... between Tennessee Williams and Lorraine Hansberry, a memory play about a black family, a glass menagerie in the sun."
Directed by Seret Scott the cast featured Garland Nominated Melany Bell as Ernestine Crump [7] sfgate.com/entertainment/article/oregon-shakespeare-fest-s-y2k-lineup-3079106.php" September 17, 1996,Center Stage, Baltimore, Maryland, from May 5 - June 11, 2006,[7] at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, from June 6–25, 2006,[8] and at the Keen Company, Theater Row, New York City, from February 21-April 1, 2023, and the Everyman Theatre in Baltimore, Maryland, from January 28 - February 25, 2024.
[7] Nottage has said of the play (in the booklet that accompanied the Center Stage production, page 4): "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.