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Orange Is The New Black's Samira Wiley is a revelation as a lovelorn New York seamstress, putting all her passion into lacy lingerie, in Lynn Nottage's exquisite Intimate Apparel
Wiley's plain, meek, spinster seamstress Esther, 35, has been sewing undergarments for the wedding trousseaus of rich, white women for 17 years, wishing they were for herself.
For 17 years she has been sewing undergarments for the wedding trousseaus of rich, white women and for her friend, Mayme, a vivacious, piano-playing black prostitute (Faith Omole), wishing they were for herself. Ingeniously set in various bedrooms, the focus of this intricately woven piece is tight, but its breadth wide, as Nottage expertly unpicks ideas about intimacy, class and race. Stitch in time: Esther (Samira Wiley, with Nicola Hughes), a poor seamstress, creates saucy smalls for wealthy white women in a beautifully woven period drama set in 1905 New York
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