In Regina Taylor's Crowns is the story of Yolanda, a street-smart kid from Brooklyn sent by her mother to her grandmother in Darlington, South Carolina, after her beloved brother Teddy is shot in the head and killed by a so-called friend. In this one-act multiple scenes play that evolved first from the photographs of church-going African-American women by Michael Cunningham and subsequently from the accompanying oral histories by Craig Marberry, playwright Taylor captures a cut of the cultural heritage of Black Americans that reaches through slavery in the United States back to Africa.
In Regina Taylor's Crowns is the story of Yolanda, a street-smart kid from Brooklyn sent by her mother to her grandmother in Darlington, South Carolina, after her beloved brother Teddy is shot in the head and killed by a so-called friend. In this one-act multiple scenes play that evolved first from the photographs of church-going African-American women by Michael Cunningham and subsequently from the accompanying oral histories by Craig Marberry, playwright Taylor captures a cut of the cultural heritage of Black Americans that reaches through slavery in the United States back to Africa.
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