The drama examines the life of a working-class black American woman, Esther
The inspiration for Lynn Nottage’s 2003 Intimate Apparel was discovering a faded photo of her great-grandmother.
Esther plies her trade in a New York rooming house. Having reached her mid-thirties, she resents the fact she creates fancy corsets for the wedding nights of other tenants while she remains a spinster. Yearning for romance and the respectability of marriage, Esther enters into a pen-pal romance with George , a West Indian labourer toiling on the Panama Canal.
The most interesting relationship is between Esther and Mr. Marks , an orthodox Jew who owns the fabric store where she purchases supplies. The unstated love that simmers between the two is Victorian in its decorousness. On Thursday night this interplay was conveyed with admirable restraint by Brizard and especially Gorman, who imbued his role with gentleness and delicacy.
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