An original play written by UW-Madison Alum DeOnna Garrison. Performed as a staged reading in April of 2025, Porcelain dolls and Chocolate dreams follows a black woman Aliyah who is married to Jonathan who cheats on his wife. Throughout the play Aliyah has problems coming to terms with the issues within her relationship as she has to battle the ideas of confrontation and seeing the reality of her situation. The entire play is a critique of representation and what a perfect American family is supposed to look like. This performance was funded by the André De Shields Fund, with lead support from Jonathan and Susan Lipp and Jun and Sandy Lee, and special support from Deirdre Garton. The André De Shields Fund is an initiative of the. Wisconsin Union Theater at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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