REC Presents Nottage's INTIMATE APPAREL On 8/10

Follow The Thread To Rebirth: New company continues reading series tackling today's largest worry. The last installment rings us to the beginning with the rebirth of an African American seamstress at a time when the world is reexamining itself.

Readers' Ensemble Company presents Intimate Apparel, written by Lynn Nottage and directed by Leslie Guyton.

At The University of the Streets on 130 East 7th Street in New York City.

$8 for all seats (check the website for discounts) and visit www.readersensemblecompany.org for reservations or further information.

The Readers' Ensemble Company (Justin Flagg & Dana Iannuzzi, producers) continues its downtown Manhattan festival of staged readings of rarely performed works. Each piece depicts part of the Recession Cycle: Greed, Collapse, Revolution, and Rebirth. The company's goal is to reintegrate these forgotten masterpieces into the active dialogue on pop-culture and current events. A Q & A follows each performance.

The Festival concludes with Intimate Apparel, written by Lynn Nottage and directed by Leslie Guyton on Monday, August 10th at 7pm.

New York City, 1905. Esther, a black seamstress, must choose between two suitors: a Caribbean man she knows only through letters and a Hasidic clothing merchant. Esther's choice and what she does with her life because of it is the basis for this tale of rebirth - her own and that of the entire world.

The cast includes Cherita Armstrong, Rosebud Baker, Mia Bankston, Justin Flagg, Charles Holiday, Femi Olagoke, and professional opera singer, Courteney Lynn Wilds, as Ms. Dickens. Ms. Wilds has been the assistant director for Regina Opera for two seasons and is making her directorial debut with Opera Manhattan's production of La Traviata.