Crowns at Olney Theatre Center

Crowns is a production by ArtsCentric presented at Olney Theatre Center.

Generations of Black women in the American South, through good times and bad, at weddings and funerals, on regular Sunday mornings and at festive holiday services, have adorned themselves with a hat for each occasion. Yolanda arrives in the South from Brooklyn to stay with family and encounters a world full of traditions that she initially regards with skepticism. However, in this play by Regina Taylor, through music and movement, the stories of the women beneath these “crowns” become a usable heritage for Yolanda as she seeks to heal from her own trauma.