Stage Black - Backstage

A Lydia Diamond play is a delightful set of challenges. Her characters are most often set in upper-middle class environs – a choice that has often been met with criticism. Are her characters ‘Black enough” if they are also upper middle class? Can Black characters be authentically both?

Spoiler alert, the answer is yes. But that doesn’t mean that her work was easy to produce or readily welcomed in the commercial marketplace. Join the cast and Director Lauren Wells-Mann as they take deep dive into this little produced gem by Lydia Diamond.