Metropolitan Playhouse presents She’s Got Harlem on Her Mind, an evening of three short plays. Framed by a cappella musical settings, She’s Got Harlem on Her Mind gives audiences a window into everyday life in Harlem in the 1920s through the eyes of pioneering writer Eulalie Spence. The plays that comprise the evening include The Starter, in which hopeful and hard-working T.J. and Georgia may or may not negotiate their engagement; Hot Stuff, a night when jaded numbers runner Fanny King makes a series of bad bets and owes nearly more than she has to lose; and The Hunch, a sweet tale of a starry-eyed fiancée getting a dose of unwelcome but much-needed clarity from a devoted admirer. Each play earned prizes from leading magazines of African-American culture in 1927: The Starter and The Hunch from the National Urban League's journal Opportunity, and Hot Stuff from W.E.B. DuBois’s The Crisis. Distinguished by the authentic dialect and idiom of her characters, the majority of Eulalie Spence’s work concerns the everyday life of African Americans. She celebrates their humanity, neither romanticizing nor politicizing their stories, nor viewing them in perspective of White mainstream culture.
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