OLD SETTLER: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND THESPIANS SEEK HAPPINESS IN HARLEM
The School of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies presents "Old Settler."
By Cody Calamaio, Prince George's Gazette
While, today, society might call her a cougar, in 1943, a woman dating a man almost half her age was unacceptable.
When love comes knocking at her door, however, 55-year old Elizabeth has some hard choices to make in John Henry Redwood’s comedy “The Old Settler.” The play opens Friday at University of Maryland’s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
Portrayed by Kiara Tinch, Elizabeth is a black domestic worker living in Harlem in 1943 with her younger sister, Quilly. The simple, church-going pair’s world is shaken up when they decide to take in a handsome 29-year old boarder named Husband.
“For the first time in a while a whole new world has opened up to Elizabeth,” says Tinch, 21, of Catonsville.
Having resigned herself to living out the rest of her life as an old settler — an unmarried women with no prospects — Elizabeth wrangles with her own feelings against a barrage of opinions from her younger sister and society.
Source:
The Gazette
Date of Publication:
2/9/12 
