Waiting to be Invited is based on a true situation from the life of the playwrights' grandmother during the summer of 1964 in Atlanta, GA. Four middle-aged black women, co-workers from a local doll factory, travel by city bus to a "whites only" eating establishment inside a downtown Atlanta department store. Their purpose is to "test" their newly acquired civil rights
handed down by the Supreme Court ruling outlawing racial segregation in eating establishments.