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Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w
Keli Goff
In the tradition of The Vagina Monologues and For Colored Girls..., The Glorious World of Crowns, Kinks and Curls is a collection of monologues and scenes featuring voices of Black women from around the globe recalling unforgettable moments in their lives in which their hair – and their complicated relationships with their hair – took center stage.
LADY 1 – A Black woman LADY 2 – A Black woman LADY 3 – A Black woman
Casting is expandable.
Author's Note: Ideally one of the ladies should qualify as “curvy.” But each cast member, regardless of her actual appearance, will play a multitude of women and girls of different ages, skin tones and hair textures. Please also note that the ladies of the cast can play whichever characters make the most sense for that particular production at that particular time, except in those instances in which a Lady’s number is specified for continuity and clarity.
A bare stage, evoking the feeling of a Black women's hair salon. The present.
“A beautiful, empowering play, celebrating the perseverance, creativity and sisterhood behind the sacred act of doing one’s hair.” – MD Theatre Guide
“Lively... The play explores many themes... not in a didactic way. Keli Goff's characters are engaging and they're wide-ranging. The play includes serious, important material about race and gender and yes, it is a good hair day.” – J. Wynn Rousuck, NPR
“The stories in The Glorious World of Crowns, Kinks and Curls are funny, sometimes sad but ultimately uplifting. Of course some of them reminded me of my own hair journey in the fashion industry. But most of all they reminded me that we all have a responsibility to work towards continuing to make standards of beauty more inclusive.” – Beverly Johnson, First African American woman to grace the cover of American Vogue
“The Glorious World of Crowns, Kinks and Curls is not just a play about hair, but about identity and the quest for equality. As such, it is a play all should see and celebrate.” – Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
“Twisted, curled, fried, picked and plaited, Black women have always had an adventurous and creative relationship with our hair. The Glorious World of Crowns, Kinks and Curls is a funny, heartbreaking and ultimately healing play about the role hair plays in unbraiding, shaping and celebrating our Black identity.” – Lynn Nottage
“Because hair is the most personal and universal signifier of belonging, The Glorious World of Crowns, Kinks and Curls is an ageless and transracial celebration of the human condition.” – Gloria Steinem
“It is a knockout. Theatres everywhere will jump to produce it.” – Cynthia Nixon
The Glorious World of Crowns, Kinks and Curls - Trailer
AfterThoughts: Black Hair Love and Equality
Keli Goff’s play The Glorious World of Crowns, Kinks and Curls recently concluded an acclaimed run at Baltimore Center Stage. Featuring Black women sharing humorous and heartbreaking stories about their hair, the streaming production was extended due to popular demand and was ...
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