The Story

CAST

Adanne.... 24 year old African American woman, “resembling the mother”
Claire... 26 year old Caucasian woman, Adanne’s girlfriend
Ms Tompkins... 40-something year old African American woman, Adanne’s mother
Sonya... 27 year old African American woman, Adanne’s friend and neighbor
CHORUS OF BLACK MEMORABILIA PIECES:
Mammy... a Mammy statue come-to-life, the only Chorus member who speaks
Topsy Doll... A ragdoll come-to-life
Jimbo the Puppet... A marionette puppet come-to-life

SETTING
present day, New York City

THE STORY

Adanne is struggling with the different relationships in her life. Her white girlfriend, Claire, is constantly saying inappropriate things. Her old-fashioned mother is unsupportive of her job and her lifestyle. And her best friend Sonya doesn’t understand why she keeps dating white women... or why Adanne keeps around the Mammy statue her mother gave her. Adanne seems to be on the fence about the statue too, but after a failure of a dinner party where Claire and Sonya both showed their nasty sides, Adanne is visited by a reincarnation of her Mammy statue. Adanne isn’t sure if Mammy is a dream or a living being, but she confesses to Mammy that she needs someone to tell her “what to do, how to act, who to be.” Eventually, the line between dream world and the real world becomes blurred, as Adanne’s world slowly becomes taken over by a chorus of Black memorabilia pieces come-to-life.