Join writer, Gail Young (Ife), for the reading of her new full-length play, 'Mama's Oven,' via Playwrights Local at Creative Space at Waterloo Arts, 397 E. 156th St., Cleveland, OH 44110 -- Monday, September 23rd, 2019; 7:00p.m. Directed by: Ashley Aquilla. MAMA'S OVEN: Takes place in1956 after the Korean War. Men are returning home, some much different than when they left. It is a time when Doo wop singers serenaded the neighborhoods under the street lights and Jim Crow was ever present, blatant and threatening. Mama's Oven focuses on the damaging results of war, intricate personal relationships, tragedy, danger, and finally resolve, as four doo wop singers and the people who love them look forward to the singers appearance at the Apollo Theater in NYC, while struggling to steer them away from the things that dim the lights on dreams of 'colored boy's. Experience the reading of this unique story as writer, Gail Young (Ife), takes the audience into the soul of. 'Mama's Oven,' a play that crystallizes loss and gain while folding back to reveal the passions of the human spirit.