…and my name ain’t Peaches
A modernized version of “For Colored Girls…” -UPTOWNflavor.com
Through monologues, music, poetry and dance, playwright Lisa McCree takes a 30-year snapshot of the lives of 11 women from the inner city in her provocative comedy about self-acceptance in a world of rejection. “And My Name Ain’t Peaches,” plays September 25 – October 5 at the Access Theater in New York.
“And My Name Ain’t Peaches” by Lisa McCree
Directed by Corey Pearlstein
Score by Paul Rucker
Video Trailer by Tim Guetterman
Ensemble cast featuring Barbara K. Asare-Bediako, Carolyn Barrett, Joresa Blount, Monifa Fola Brown, Tonya Conrad, Kerri Miller, Ciera Payton, Ashley Shante, and Shakeilya Washington.
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Posted in: Theater, Uptown/Downtown
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October 5, 2008
Seeing “Peaches” the other day felt like exhaling a long-awaited baited breath. It seems like ever since I’ve known, Monifa, aka, Dicima SeminLima (DSL) we’ve been waiting for this play to come to fruition. I was so excited to know that finally there would be life to something so special to so many.
I wasn’t prepared to be so moved but I undeniably was. I sat with my friends glued to the stage as the women spoke truth to power as we like to say in my church. I was glad to know that even in our downtrodden situations that our humanity could be revealed.
This play is wonderful and it needs to be shown in every city to every teenage girl, to every woman survivor of any abuse, to every woman who ever doubted her worth.
Job well done!