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How Black Mothers Say I Love You
Project Type
Play
Richmond Triangle Players
Richmond, VA
Date
February 2023
Role
Director
Reviews
"A moving, must-see highlight of the local theater season .. Engrossing, eloquent and extraordinary ... it's the kind of emotionally complex, expertly-rendered story perfect for warming your heart during the cold winter months." -- STYLE Weekly
"How Black Mothers Say I Love You is a stunningly beautiful work of theatre, one I was not familiar with, one I will not forget. See it with your mother or daughter. And take tissues." -- RVA Art Review
Behind the curtain
How Black Mothers Say I Love You tells the story of hard-working Daphne, who left her two young daughters in Jamaica for six years to create a better life for them in America. Now thirty years later, proud and private, Daphne is relying on her church and her nearby dutiful daughter to face a health crisis. But when feisty activist daughter Claudette arrives unexpectedly from far away to help out, her arrival stirs up the buried past, family ghosts and the burning desire for unconditional love before it’s too late.
Playing Daphne is Dorothy “Dee D.” Miller (Auntie Mama in RTP’s acclaimed, RTCC-awarded Best Play of the Year Sugar in Our Wounds). Her daughters will be played by Zakiyyah Jackson (who appeared in RTP’s hit production of The Cake), Shalandis Wheeler Smith (seen at RTP in The Heritage Ensemble Theatre Company’s What They Did for Us) and, making her RTP debut, Bailey Robinson.
