How Did Caribbean Women End Up Raising Kids Like Me?

For most of my life, when I told a story about Marlene, I began with my childhood. Writing Calling Marlene made me wonder what I was leaving outside the frame. Marlene is from Trinidad. I’m an Italian Jewish kid from Long Island. This week I followed the history that helped bring us into the same house: migration, jobs, relatives, referrals, and a city full of people who knew someone. The history answers part of the question. Our relationship is another part. Want to know when Calling Marlene is coming to a theater near you? Sign up for show updates: https://callingmarlene.com Watch the full Calling Marlene series:    • Calling Marlene - From Script to Stage   Mickey Farrow:    / @mickeyfarrow   Instagram:   / mickey.farrow   Facebook:   / comedian.mickey.farrow   Website: https://mickeyfarrow.com Subscribe to follow the journey as it happens. Calling Marlene is a documentary series following the real process of trying to take a deeply personal one-man show from the page into the world. The series follows the playwriting and production journey as it actually happens — the decisions, collaborators, mistakes, setbacks, developmental performances and opportunities that determine what the show becomes. There is no promised destination. How far can one finished script go? CHAPTERS 00:00 How did this happen? 01:30 Before 1965 02:46 Britain and Caribbean migration 03:37 The U.S. rules change 04:38 Women, work, and family networks 06:37 How Marlene met my family 09:50 Jewish New York and working families 12:12 Two histories meet #CallingMarlene