Drama

Crumbs from the

Table of Joy
By Lynn Nottage
Prof. Ángeles Castro
 ABOUT THE PLAY

-Play written and performed for the first time in 1995.

-It originally premiered in Off-Broadway on their programme for teen

audiences.

-It is considered a “memory play” (a play in which a lead character narrates

the events of the play, which are drawn from the character's memory).

-Set in Brooklyn, in 1950.

 TITLE
It's an allusion to the poem “Luck” (1947) by Sometimes a crumb falls
Langston Hughes -American writer (1901-1967)
Leader of “Harlem Renaissance” From the tables of joy,

Sometimes a bone

Is flung.

To some people

Love is given,

To others

Only heaven.
 THEMES

*Displacement and the psychological effects of change (Godfrey and daughters)

*Bridging cultural, political and generational divides (Lily and the rest)

*Grieving and bereavement and the role of faith in coping with loss (Godfrey and
daughters. Father Divine)

*Coming of age–progressing into womanhood (Ernestine and Ermina)

*Racism and segregation (The Crumbs and Lily)

*The (failure of) the American Dream (The Crumbs, Lily and Gerte)
 RELEVANT QUOTES

Godfrey: “I left Florida for a reason, couldn’t breathe, couldn’t think, couldn’t do
nothing but go to work, make my dime and drink it down on Friday night. Then I
found something that gave me inspiration, gave me strength to make a change.
May not be like your change, revolution! Oh but it do feel that big to me. It
soothed my pain and that’s all I want right now. It took all the strength I had to
take these gals on a train out their wooden doors and place ’em here in brick and
concrete.”
 RELEVANT QUOTES

Ernestine: “I wondered had her revolution already begun? So I went down to the
Public library round my way, “Revolution, American, Revolutionary War,
Revolution, French.” But no Negro Revolution. I did find twenty entries on
communism in the card catalogue, but no books on the shelves. The teacher
said, “select a topic that’s close to you.” My essay was entitled “The Colored
Worker in the United States,” the mistake was using the word “worker” too
liberally. The principal called in Daddy Goodness and told him to stop mingling
with the Jews at his job and everything would be all right. Daddy didn’t bother to
tell him that his co-workers were all colored. And the Jews on our block
won’t speak to us.
 RELEVANT QUOTES

Lily: “Ya like my suit? (Ernestine nods.) I bought it on Fifth Avenue, sure did, to
spite those white gals. You know how they hate to see a Negro woman look
better than they do. It’s my own little subversive mission to out dress them
whenever possible. Envy is my secret weapon, babies. If ya learn anything from
your Auntie let it be that.”
 RELEVANT QUOTES

Lily: “Go on say it, tongue won’t fall out. The communist party, amongst other
things. (Ermina giggles.) Oh you find that funny? I ain’t laughing. I suppose ya
happy with what you got, a bit of nothing. Sure I was happy at your age “a little
pickaninny” selling hot cakes to the fishermen. Taking pennies from poor people
ain’t a job it’s a chore. This may be New York, but this still the basement.
Don’t none of those crackers want to share any bit of power with us. That’s what
it’s about. Red scare, should be called black scare.”
 RELEVANT QUOTES
GERTE. Can’t you forget our differences behind this closed door. When I see you I see
no color. I see Lily.
LILY. Well when I see ya I see a white woman, and when I look in the mirror I see a
Negro woman. All that in the confines in this here room. How about that? What do you
see Ernie? You see any differences between us?
ERNESTINE. Yeah.
LILY. There you go.
GERTE. May I say to you both, I have seen what happens when we permit our
differences—
LILY. (Enraged.) Don’t lecture me about race. You are the last person on earth I’d
look to for guidance.
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`P WAR 1929 CRASH
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 Setting
Place: Brooklyn, 1950
Time: Fall
 Prologue
Fall 1950
Ermina, Ernestine and Godfrey Crum
Act 1
SCENE 2
Winter
 As Ermina sorts through the mail one day, Godfrey impatiently
asks if Father Divine has finally responded to him
Ernestine mail-ordered some fabric for a dress she’s making. It’s
a dress for her high school graduation
Godfrey is suddenly overcome by pride, talking about how
Ernestine will be the first person in the family to graduate high
school
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SCENE 3
Winter
Act 1
SCENE 4
Winter
Act 1
SCENE 6
Winter
Act II
SCENE 1
Winter
Act 1
SCENE 5
Winter
Act 1
SCENE 1
Winter
Act II
SCENE 2
Winter
Act II
SCENE 3
Winter
Act II
SCENE 4
Winter
 Epilogue
Fall 1950
Ermina, Ernestine and Godfrey Crum
 02
WAR
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 CASUALTIES IN WW1

POPULATION MOBILIZED DECEASED

GERMANY 67,000,000 7,800,000 1,800,000

UK 46,000,000 6,200,000 740,000

FRANCE 36,500,000 8,400,000 1,400,000

AMERICA 93,000,000 4,300,000 115,000

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LOVE WAR
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NATURE LOST
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harbors life actually a cold place
 CAUSES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION

WW1 DEBTS
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1914 1920 1927 1929

PRODUCTION CRASH
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CONSEQUENCES OF 1929’S CRASH

UNEMPLOYMENT
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The Second Red Scare The Great Migration The American Dream
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