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Prologue and Act One, Scenes 1 and 2

· The following version of this play was used to create this Lesson Plan. Nottage, Lynn. Crumbs From the Table of Joy. Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 1998.

· The Prologue opens in the fall of 1950 with Godrey Crump and his two daughters, Ernestine and Ermina, sitting on a bench.

· Ernestine, the older daughter and the play’s narrator, delivers a monologue in which she speaks about her mother’s death and how badly it upset her father and of how her mother’s death affected the rest of the family.

· Ernestine says the family moved to New York City.

· Stage directions give a physical description of the three characters.

· Ernestine concludes her monologue by saying her mother’s death prompted the family to move to a basement apartment in Brooklyn.

· Ermina says the apartment is ugly.

· Ernestine continues talking to the audience, saying that her...

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