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WRITING | THE DOLL PLAYS |
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the doll plays
Three-act Drama / 11 W, 1 M
At the moment of her passing, Aunt Len revisits her life through the incredible collections of dolls that fill her Harlem brownstone.
“The Doll Plays is a journey into the mind and memory of a remarkable woman, Lenon Holder Hoyt (1905-1999), who was a collector of dolls and a long lived resident of Harlem.
Her dolls re-create her life, her sadness as Harlem degenerates around her, as well as her retreat into the fantasy lives of those dolls. We see Aunt Len’s dismay at the entropy around her,
her love for the dolls and the sanctuary she finds in their remarkable stories which are moments of culture frozen forever like their painted on smiles, and retold endlessly, like the limited range of a modern doll’s pull-string voice.”
Production: Actor’s Express Theater (World Premier, 2002) Peter DuBois (Director); Reading: Joseph Papp Public Theater, New Work Now Festival (2000) Joseph Papp Public Theater, Peter DuBois (Director);
Workshop Production/Reading: New Works for a New World Summer Playlab, New World Theater at The University of Massachusetts (1998) Heather Henson (Director)
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