CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY spy LYNN NOTTAGECRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY Copyright © 1998, Lynn Nottage All Rights Reserved CAUTION: Professionals and amateurs are hercby warned that performance of CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY is subject to payment ofa oyalty Is fully protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America, and of all countries covered by the International Copyright Union (including the Dominion of Canada and the rest of the British Commonwealth), and ofall counties covered by the Pan-American Copyright Convention, the Univeral Copyright Convention, the Beme Convention, and of all countries with which the United States has reciprocal copyright relations. All rights, including without limitation profesional/amatcur stage rights, motion pictur, recitation, lecturing: public reading, ado broadcasting, television, video or sound recording, all other forms of neckanicl, ccctonic and digital reproduction, tansmision and distibution, sich as CD, DVD, the lnerne, private and filesharing neowork, information storage and ital gen, ptoweying ad th 8 of aon in fogs ngage rctly recerved. TarGealar emphasis is plactl upon the matter of readings, permission for ‘which’ must he secure rom the Authors agent wing = ‘The English language stock and amateur sage perfomance igh in dhe United Stave is Tenicores, poseeions and Canada for CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY are controlled exclusively by DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICE, INC., 440 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016. No professional or nonprofessional performance of the Pla may be given without obtaining in advance the writen permission of DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICE, INC., and paying the requisite fe. Laguiis concerning af other sighs Should ewe to isa Ais Agency, 162 Fifth Aventie, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10010 Attn; Olivier Sultan and Corinne Hayoun, ‘SPECIAL NOTE Anyone receiving permission to produce CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF OX is required to give credit to the Author as sole and exclusive Author of the Play on the ttle page of all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play and in all Instances in which the ttle of the Play appears for purposes of advertising, publicizing or otherwise exploiting the Play and/or a production thereof, The name of the Author must appear on a separate lin, in which no other name appears, immediately beneath the tile and in size of type equal to 50% ofthe size of the largest, most prominent letter used for the title of the Play. No person, firm or entity may receive credit larger or more prominent than that accorded the Author. The following acknowledgment must appear on the ttle page in all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play: ‘World Premiere Production by The Second Stage Theatre, May 1995 Antistie Director Producing Director Carole Rothman Suzanne Schwartz Davidson with a grant from the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund SPECIAL NOTE ON SONGS AND RECORDINGS For performances of copyrighted songs, arrangements or recordings mentioned in this Plat the permission of the copyright owns) must be obtained. Other songs arrangements or recordings may be substieuted provided permission from the copyright ovener(s) of such songs anangementso eons obtained or songs, arrangements or recordings in the public domain may be substituted.CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY received its world premiere at Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director; Suzanne Schwartz Davidson, Producing Director) in New York City, in May, 1995, It was directed by Joe Morton; the set design was by Myung Hee Cho; the costume design was by Karen Perry; the lighting design was by Donald Holder; the sound design was by Mark Bennett; the production stage manager was Delicia Turner; and the stage manager was David Sugarman. The cast was as follows: . Kisha Howard Nicole Leach -Daryl Edwards ..Ella Joyce Stephanie Roth ERNESTINE CRUMP ERMINA CRUMP .... GODFREY CRUMP... LILY ANN GREEN GERTE SCHULTE... CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY received its West Coast premiere at South Coast Repertory (David Emmes, Producing Artistic Director; Martin Benson, Artistic Director) in Costa Mesa, California, on September, 17, 1996, It was directed by Seret Scott; the set design was by Michael Vaughn Sims; the costume design was by Susan Denison Geller; the lighting de- sign was by Paulie Jenkins; the sound design was by Garth Hemphill; the vocal/dialect consultant was Lynn Watson; the production manager was Michael Mora; and the stage manager was Randall K. Lum. The cast was as follows: ERNESTINE CRUMP .. ERMINA CRUMP GODFREY CRUMP . LILY ANN GREEN GERTE SCHULTE Karen Malina White Susan Patterson Dorian Harewood .-Ella Joyce lancy Harewood