Intimate Apparel & Fabulation: Two Plays
Paperback, 192 pages ISBN: 9781559362795Publication Date:
1 Jul 2007
Size: 216mm x 137mm£22.99
First Staged:
UK: Fabulation staged at Tricycle, London, 2005

Intimate Apparel & Fabulation: Two Plays

By Lynn Nottage

Paperback £22.99

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On Stage at:
Donmar Warehouse, London
From Fri 20 Jun 2025 to Sat 9 Aug 2025

Two companion pieces spanning 100 years in the lives of African American women.

Intimate Apparel is about the empowerment of Esther, a proud and shy seamstress in 1905 New York who creates exquisite lingerie for both Fifth Avenue boudoirs and Tenderloin bordellos.

In Fabulation, Nottage reimagines Esther as Undine, the public relations diva of today, who spirals downward from her swanky Manhattan office to her roots back in Brooklyn.

Also available: a single-play edition of Intimate Apparel.

Press Quotes

'An exceptionally gifted playwright'

New York Times

'A thing of beauty'

Los Angeles Times on 'Intimate Apparel'

'Couldn't be funnier or more irreverent'

Daily Telegraph on 'Fabulation'

'In a world filled with solemnity, it is good to see racial politics given a comic spin'

Guardian
Paperback,192 pages ISBN: 9781559362795Publication Date:
1 Jul 2007
Size: 216mm x 137mm£22.99

Also by Lynn Nottage:

Crumbs from the Table of Joy
Clyde's
Intimate Apparel
Decade
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
Mlima's Tale
Ruined
Mlima's Tale
Fabulation
Sweat

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