Wedding Band

A Love/Hate Story in Black and White

Set in the deep south at the end of World War I during the flu epidemic, Alice Childress’s seldom-produced masterpiece is one of American drama’s most mercilessly revealing tales of interracial love. A jewel of theatrical concision and detail, the play traces a devoted couple’s caustic confrontations with anti-miscegenation laws, vicious family racism, community disapproval and finally deadly disease and their own long-buried feelings. Wedding Band, written in the heat of the Civil Rights era, speaks with stunning clarity to the public debates of the Black Lives Matter era. Awoye Timpo directs the play’s first New York production since its New York premiere in 1972.

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Deepen your experience of Wedding Band with free post-show conversations with artists and scholars following select 2pm matinee performances. TFANA Talks are free and open to the public and do not require a ticket to that day’s performance.

Saturday, May 21, 4:30PM: TFANA Talk
“Interrogating the Left in the Work of Alice Childress”
Moderator: Dominique Rider
With: Venus Evans-Winters, Awoye Timpo, Mary Helen Washington

“Wedding Band” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com