Kenneth's Ruth Younger Role

I would cast Angela Bassett for this role as she pefectly matches Ruth's physical description of a mid thirties African-American woman who is beautiful. Ruth Younger is portrayed as a domestic home worker who does the typical housewife chores around the home. A great example of this is when she says to her son Travis, "Come on now boy, it's seven thirty. I say hurry up, Travis! You ain't the only person in the world got to use a bathroom She is the wife of Walter Lee Younger. Her main goal throughout the play was to keep her family together as she and Walter were having problems in their relationship. Ruth possesses a simple, down to earth motherly type of personality which I feel would be well portrayed by Ms. Bassett, who has played this type of role in the Tina Turner bio "What's Love Got To Do With It".