Unicorn renders corset love story
June 6, 2007 
A play penned by Lyn Nottage about an African-American corset-maker is to arrive at the Unicorn Theatre in Kansas this summer, making it the most staged play in US regional theatres in the past two years.
Intimate Apparel is set in Manhattan in 1905 and tells the story of corset-maker Esther, who measures her customers up for corsets in Fifth Avenue boudoirs and bordellos.
In the course of her work, Esther, who will be played by Lynn King, finds that her clients become involved in her personal life and she receives romantic letters from a Barbadian suitor who wants to wed the corset-maker.
Running from June 15th for a month, this version of Intimate Apparel will be directed by Fred Goodson, who has seen more than his fair share of corsets, having directed the Rocky Horror Show.
The play has already won five awards for Best Play, including the prestigious New York Drama Critic's Circle Award in 2004, according to Kansas Infozine.
British fans who like the sound of Lynn Nottage's work may have seen the playwright's most recent play, the Obie Award-winning Fabulation! Or the Re-Education of Undine, which sold out the Tricycle Theatre in London on its premiere.
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