Old Settler

Drama
Written By: John Henry Redwood
Directed by: Jerry Maples
Cast: Carolyn Johnson, Dorothy J. Morrison, Kwame Riley, Amaali

Synopsis:

The Old Settler is “about life in Harlem in 1943. It’s a play…about the relationship of two aging church going sisters...and what happens when a handsome young fella, newly arrived from the Deep South, rents a room in the apartment they share...it has the authority and lack of pretense of an early Early American Sampler.”
The New York Times

“…good naturalism does more than reproduce; it listens with passion and honor, and it shapes what it hears into powerful form…Mr. Redwood has said he models these sisters on his mother and aunt. It’s a lovely play, moving in its pretty unsurprising central anecdote and more moving in its densely textured picture of Harlem life in 1943.” The Wall Street Journal