NEW HAVEN — To be a mirror image of her strong-willed mother, Lady, is the last thing that Dee is looking for in her life, but a conversation between the two in front of a bedroom mirror as Lady prepares for a dinner party provides both the drama and a plot twist in “Bossa Nova,” which has its world premiere Friday at Yale Repertory Theatre.
A work by “please stop calling me an emerging” playwright Kirsten Greenidge, “Bossa Nova” has been gestating in script-in-hand readings and workshops since 2005.
The mother of two young children, whose web designer husband has been on kid watch “walking around New Haven with a double-sized stroller,” Greenidge took time out from watching director Evan Yionoulis play midwife to the birth of her play, to talk about why it’s important for her to write roles such as Dee and Lady.
Greenidge is interested in writing contemporary stories about African Americans, avoiding the niches, the cliches many writers fall into. “Bossa Nova” explores how image can mean everything; the complexities of a mother-daughter relationship, the latter Greenidge has experienced both as a daughter and granddaughter and her emerging — she’ll accept the term here — role as a mother herself
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A work by “please stop calling me an emerging” playwright Kirsten Greenidge, “Bossa Nova” has been gestating in script-in-hand readings and workshops since 2005.
Greenidge is interested in writing contemporary stories about African Americans, avoiding the niches, the cliches many writers fall into. “Bossa Nova” explores how image can mean everything; the complexities of a mother-daughter relationship, the latter Greenidge has experienced both as a daughter and granddaughter and her emerging — she’ll accept the term here — role as a mother herself
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