'The Secret Life Of Bees' Takes On A Second Life As Musical Theater
Sue Monk Kidd's bestselling novel tells the story of a white girl taken in by a family of black beekeepers. The premise posed a welcome challenge for black Pulitzer-winning playwright Lynn Nottage.
When two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage was approached about writing the script for a musical version of The Secret Life of Bees, she said yes. But she knew it wasn't going to be easy adapting a novel told in the first person â by a young white girl.
We were very hyper-aware that we didn't want to create a tale which it was just about a young white woman entering into
