Comedy about stereotypes and Black-Jewish relations. When Jewish mom Beth finds out that her only son has a new Black girlfriend she is forced to reconcile her Liberal aspirations with her resurfacing phobias. As she anxiously prepares for their belated first encounter, Beth hilariously and problematically imagines Nia to be everything from Haitian Boat Woman to Nigerian Goddess to African-American Boast Rapper. Will she be able to get the apparitions out of her head when she meets the real Nia? Set in Brooklyn in the early 1990s, The Many Faces of Nia combines snappy sitcom-style dialogue with magical realism for a laugh-out-loud tragedy about fantasy, stereotypes, sexuality, love and the tensions between Black and Jewish people. Two acts. 10 characters. 9 actors. 6 women. 3 men.
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February 2004 @ Smith College (Northampton MA)
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