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Stew

  • Zora Howard
  • Full Length Play, Drama, New Millennium/21st Century
  • 4F
  • ISBN: 9780573709135

In Zora Howard's compelling comedy-drama, three generations of Black women banter and bicker as they prepare for a feast.

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: New Millennium/21st Century
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre

  • Accolades:
  • Nominee! Two Drama League Awards including Outstanding Production of a Play (2020)
    Nominee! Nine Audelco Awards including Best Play and Best Playwright (2020)
Mama is up early to prepare an important meal and, even with her family on hand to help, time is running short. Tensions simmer with three generations of Tucker women under one roof, but things come to a boil as the violence hovering around the periphery of their lives begins to intrude upon the sanctity of Mama's kitchen. 

REVIEWS:

"A captivating story that's intimate, funny, and heartbreaking in equal measure."

 The New Yorker

"Subtly haunting new domestic drama... [Howard's] intimate 90-minute drama...invites a comfortable familiarity, as through we too were in our pajamas at Mama's kitchen table."

 Time Out NY

"Stew, by Zora Howard, feels familiar without being cliché, delivering a captivating story that's intimate, funny, and heartbreaking in equal measure."

 The New Yorker

"Howard clearly is an upcoming artist to watch."

 New York Stage Review

  • Casting: 4F
  • Casting Attributes: Role(s) for Black Actor(s)
  • Casting Notes: All of the women in this play should kind of look alike.

  • LIL' MAMA - A black girl in her pre-teens. (Also reads AND A THIRD)
    NELLY - A black girl soon to be eighteen. (Also reads ANOTHER VOICE OFFSTAGE)
    LILLIAN - A black woman in her thirties. (Also reads A VOICE OFFSTAGE)
    MAMA - A mature black woman. Don't ask her age.
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    Mama is up early to prepare an important meal and, even with her family on hand to help, time is running short. Tensions simmer with three generations of Tucker women under one roof, but things come to a boil as the violence hovering around the periphery of their lives begins to intrude upon the sanctity of Mama's kitchen. 

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