Written and Performed by Michelle Matlock

Blowin up the icon of mammy with daredevil humor, educated outrage and ridiculous grace.

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Michelle Matlock
...Is A New Yorker

Chashama presents a Bindlestiff Family Variety Arts Inc. Production of
The Mammy Project.

Every Monday @ 8PM,
starting January 19, 2003 and
Every Sunday @ 5pm Starting February 1, 2003 At the Palace Of Variety
125 West 42nd Street
between 6th Avenue and Broadway
For reservations please call 212.674.4538

The Mammy Project, written by Michelle Matlock and directed by Joan Evans, finally confronts the American stereotype of Mammy as a white man’s fantasy, a black woman’s history and a country’s favorite product. As performed by Michelle Matlock this project travels from the life and times of Nancy Green (the first woman hired to play the part of a mammy), through the minstrel show era and silver-screen Mammies, to the present day where Aunt Jemima is still bought and sold from her pancake box prison [more].