Waiting to be Invited

by Sherri shepherd Massat

 

The Ensemble Theatre and The National Black Theatre Festival

 

Set during the summer of 1964 in Atlanta, Georgia, Waiting to be Invited is the story of four middle-aged black women, co-workers from a local doll factory, who travel by city bus to a "Whites Only" eating establishment inside a downtown Atlanta department store. Their purpose is to test their newly acquired civil rights, handed down by the Supreme Court, outlawing segregation in restaurants.