Up next is the heart-wrenching and timely Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White. The play chronicles the romance of an interracial couple, Julia and Herman, living in Charleston, South Carolina during the Spanish Influenza outbreak of 1918. Though they remain devoted to one another for a decade, they cannot avoid the harsh and sometimes deadly scorn from their separate worlds. After Jim Crow segregation and a contentious presidential election forces the two out of their private oasis, the couple must question whether it’s possible for a black woman and a white man to have an equal partnership in this moment, no matter how much they love each other. Fearless playwright, novelist, and actress Alice Childress asks questions about race, gender, and class division in this play with a level of honesty and compassion rare for her time.
DIRECTED BY CHERYL LYNN BRUCE
ENSEMBLE
Renea Brown
Julia Augustine
Ashton Carter*
Nelson Green
Niya Colbert
Mattie
Joseph Langham*
Bell Man
Megan McDermott*
Annabelle
Deysha Nelson
Teeta
Cathy Simpson*
Fanny Johnson
Nicole Stacie
Lula Green
Camiel Warren-Taylor
Princess
Jay Whittaker*
Herman
Cheryl Williams*
Herman’s Mother
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association.
