Milk Like Sugar

Milk Like Sugar

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Characters: 2 male, 5 female </p> <strong>Winner! of a 2011 Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award </strong><br> <strong> Winner! of The San Diego Critics Circle 2011 Craig Noel Award for Outstanding New Play </strong> </p> It is Annie Desmond's sixteenth birthday and her friends have decided to help her celebrate in style, complete with a brand new tattoo. Before her special night is over, however, Annie and her friends enter into a life altering pact. When Annie tries to make good on her promise to her friends, she is forced to take a good look at the world that surrounds her. She befriends Malik, who promises a bright future, and Keera, whose evangelical leanings inspire Annie in a way her young parents have not been able to do. In the end Annie's choices propel her onto an irreversible path in this story that combines wit, poetry, and hope. </p> "A distinctive view of a matter of vital currency, crisply delineated characters who reveal more layers as the play proceeds, richly funny vernacular dialogue... <em>Milk Like Sugar</em> delivers piercing glimpses of the way underachievement and unhappiness are passed down from generation to generation." - <em> The New York Times</em></p> "<em>Milk Like Sugar</em>'s remarkable features include its locale, an urban, African-American subworld that displays, for once, neither the brutalizing clichés of a poverty-stricken ghetto nor the discomfiting artificiality of a talented-tenth safe haven. Instead, Greenidge populates her story with a sampling of the innumerable young people between those extremes." - <em> The Village Voice</em></p> "Greenidge's crackling, often humorous dialogue is in the vernacular of inner-city residents who deliberately distort language...Metaphors about flames, burning and flying are nicely woven throughout the story, along with lyrical symbolic imagery." - <em> The Associated Press</em></p> "Kirsten Greenidge's fast-talking, victim-taking New York debut" - <em> Entertainment Weekly </em> </p> "Greenidge captures girl speak in unnerving perfection" - <em> The Daily News </em> </p> "The title refers to the sweet powdered milk that offers far more flavor than nutritional value. But the tart <em>Milk Like Sugar</em> offers plenty of both" - <em> The New York Post </em>