‘Our Daughters, Like Pillars’ – Written by Kirsten Greenidge; directed by Kimberly Senior; set design by Marion Williams; costume design by Sarita Fellows; lighting design by Mary Louise Geiger; sound design and original music by Jane Shaw; wig/hair and makeup design by Tommy Kurzman; stage managed by Kevin Schlagle. Produced by The Huntington Theatre at the Calderwood Pavilion/BCA through May 8, 2022.

by Julieanne Whitney

Our Daughters, Like Pillars is a story about complex family dynamics and the struggle to break free from the roles we are forced into playing within the family unit. Kirsten Greenidge’s new play focuses on a Black family at the center of which are three sisters doing what they can (or must) to hold themselves and each other together.  

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by Michele Markarian

“Our Daughters Like Pillars” – Written by Kirsten Greenidge.  Directed by Kimberly Senior.  Presented by The Huntington, Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA, 527 Tremont Street, Boston through May 8.

Lavinia Shaw Williams (Nikkole Salter), the oldest sister of a Black family, has organized a week-long stay at an Airbnb in North Conway, New Hampshire, for siblings Octavia (Arie Thompson) and Zelda (Lyndsay Allyn Cox). Their mother, Yvonne (Lizan Mitchell) is there as well; she has been living with Lavinia and Lavinia’s husband, Morris (Postell Pringle). What appears to be a mere vacation is actually part of a larger plan that Lavinia – or Vinny as she’s called – has for her family; to live together forever under one roof. What Vinny hasn’t counted on is Zelda’s arrival with her new self-sustaining tiny house and new boyfriend, Paul (Julian Parker), as well as the arrival of their negligent father’s second wife, Missy Shaw (Cheryl D. Singleton).  Family, with all of its flaws, betrayals, loyalties and secrets, are at the heart of the play. 

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