Beneeka Johnson The Crumbs from the Table of Joy is a play written by Lynn Nottage. The setting is in Brooklyn New York 1950. This play sheds light to a hushed issue in society, interracial marriages. The father takes his daughters to New York after their mother passed away in the south. He followed a man named father Divine as though it was his new savior. Godfrey went as far as to rename his children at the request of father Divine. Sarah was the name of his first wife, her sister Lilly made her trifling way to Godfrey and the kids, stating it was her job to watch after the girls. Lilly was a drunk, with washed up dreams of liberating other blacks, living off the family until she could no longer. Lilly also let it be known that she had feeling for Godfrey and their cheating in the past. Gerte and Godfrey married even though she was a German white woman and he was black. He liked her a lot but would not sleep with her ashamed how others would perceive him. Gerte hung in there with him because of her love, which helped him let go of the pain he lugged around and only wrote on paper. Godfrey even received a beating from a gang of angry blacks trying to defend his woman’s honor. Sad to say even in 2013 interracial marriages are still frown upon.
Beneeka Johnson
ReplyDeleteThe Crumbs from the Table of Joy is a play written by Lynn Nottage. The setting is in Brooklyn New York 1950. This play sheds light to a hushed issue in society, interracial marriages. The father takes his daughters to New York after their mother passed away in the south. He followed a man named father Divine as though it was his new savior. Godfrey went as far as to rename his children at the request of father Divine. Sarah was the name of his first wife, her sister Lilly made her trifling way to Godfrey and the kids, stating it was her job to watch after the girls. Lilly was a drunk, with washed up dreams of liberating other blacks, living off the family until she could no longer. Lilly also let it be known that she had feeling for Godfrey and their cheating in the past. Gerte and Godfrey married even though she was a German white woman and he was black. He liked her a lot but would not sleep with her ashamed how others would perceive him. Gerte hung in there with him because of her love, which helped him let go of the pain he lugged around and only wrote on paper. Godfrey even received a beating from a gang of angry blacks trying to defend his woman’s honor. Sad to say even in 2013 interracial marriages are still frown upon.