Local playwright Kirsten Greenidge and director Kimberly Senior present a soulful look at life's joys and scars in 'Our Daughters, Like Pillars' at huntington. Theater critic Jwills1 salutes the play, the production and the cast:
The story of the Shaw family moves slowly; it's thick and rich like molasses in Kirsten Greenidge's world premiere"" at the Huntington Theatre Company . Wounds seep without much tending to, and old beliefs remain intact, but it's evident that the flawed troupe, bound by blood and loss, is stitched together with love.
Julian Parker and Lyndsay Allyn Cox in "Our Daughters, Like Pillars" at the Huntington Theatre Company. The sprawling narrative, directed with heart by Kimberly Senior, was loosely inspired by Dorothy West's book"Living is Easy," in which the book's protagonist, a Black woman in the Boston area in the 1940s, wants her family to live together according to an interview with Greenidge. Lavinia also wants her loved ones to dwell together, but her family has lots to say about it.
The family's vacation takes place in an impressively constructed forest by set designer Marion Williams where trees stretch toward the ceiling above a blanket of lush green grass and plants. A light wooden frame outlines the home Lavinia and Morris rented for the family to stay in. Sound designer Jane Shaw created a sweet mélange of creeping bugs, crickets, and more as a soundscape.
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