Crowns (play)

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Regina Taylor adapted this stage version of a photo-journalistic book by Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry documenting the headwear of churchgoing African-American women. The play follows a young woman, Yolanda, as she travels from her native Brooklyn down south to stay with her grandmother. Over the course of one Sunday, Yolanda inquires into the nature of the ornamental headgear of the older women around her, uncovering the roots that lie beneath. She begins to learn that their hats relate to a larger story of Africanism, triumph and pride, linking her to a spiritual community across endless generations of women.