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Wedding Band: Created by Josh Lobis, Darin Moiselle. With Brian Austin Green, Peter Cambor, Derek Miller, Jenny Wade. Lifelong friends play in a band for hire.
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Alice Childress was born October 12, 1920, in Charleston, South Carolina. Childress, who dropped out of high school after two years, was raised in Harlem in New York City by her grandmother, Eliza Campbell. Campbell had only an elementary school education, but she was an accomplished storyteller and likely instilled in Childress an early interest i...
Wedding Band depicts a tragedy involving an interracial affair. The action takes place over a period of three days near the end of World War I. The setting is 1918 South Carolina where state law prevents interracial marriage. Julia is a black woman in love with a white man, Herman. They would like to escape the south and move to the north where the...
Annabelle
Annabelle is Herman’s sister and is in her thirties. She is evidently very tall and is happy to have finally found a man who is taller than she. She wants to marry Walter, but he is a common sailor, not an officer, and so not socially acceptable as a husband according to her mother. Annabelle wants Herman to break off from Julia and marry a white woman who can help care for their mother; she sees this as the only way she will ever be freed from her mother and able to marry Walter. Because she...
Julia Augustine
Julia is a thirty-five year old black seamstress with an eighth grade education. She is lonely, isolated, and ashamed that she is not respectably married. She is in love with Herman even though he has no money and is uneducated. She is a social outcast, not really a member of her own black race and certainly not welcomed by whites. She is showing the strain of ten years of social disapproval and isolation. She tries to free Mattie by giving her the tickets and the wedding band. For Julia, all...
Bell Man
Bell man is a thirty year old white peddler who extends credit to his black female customers, and is owed money by most women in the neighborhood. He asks Julia for sex and offers to give her stockings in return.
Julia, a black woman, is in love with Herman, who is white. The play takes place over a period of three
Wedding Band is a two act play with prose dialogue, stage directions, and no interior dialogue. The two acts are also subdivided into scenes. There are no soliloquies, and thus, the thoughts of the characters and any action off stage must be explained by the actors. The actors address one another in Wedding Bandand not the audience.
Racism and Racial Intolerance
In 1966, Alice Childress addressed the lack of freedom that defined the lives of black Americans. In an essay published in Freedomways, Childress noted that immigrants arriving in the United States have more freedoms than African Americans: “We know that most alien visitors are guaranteed rights and courtesies not extended to at least one-fifth of American citizens.” Childress argued that the story of the black woman has not been told by Hollywood or the popular press. It was the need to tell...
Miscegenation Law
The inspiration for Wedding Bandwas, in part, the miscegenation law that forbid the marriage or cohabitation of two individuals of different races. Yet even though interracial marriage was forbidden by law in the south, Julia could not have escaped segregation by fleeing to the north. In spite of the fact that her marriage to Herman would have been sanctioned legally in the north, social pressures and racism would still have served to ostracize Julia from the community. In fact, in 1966 laws...
Role of Women
After the end of the Civil War and the abolishment of slavery, laws were passed in southern states proclaiming that all children born to black women were the responsibility of the mothers only. The purpose of this law was to provide protection for slave owners from black women who might seek support for their children fathered by white slave owners. The result was that black women were abandoned to raise their children alone without any assistance from either black or white fathers. In the ye...
Wedding Band was largely ignored by critics and producers when it was written. Producers shied away from such controversial topics as interracial marriage and the miscegenation laws still in effect in many southern states. There was a rehearsed reading in 1963 and the play was optioned for Broadway by producers but after changing hands several time...
Sheri Metzger
Metzger is an adjunct professor at Embry-Riddle University. In this essay she examines some of the ways in which American society discriminates against African Americans—particularly black women. She also discusses the manner in which Childress’s play deals with these issues. Alice Childress noted in a 1966 essay in Freedomways that America extends basic rights and opportunities to foreign visitors and to immigrants that are not offered to black Americans. She reminded her readers that visito...
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1. Florence(1949), Alice Childress’s first play, focuses on two women waiting in a train station. While Mama’s interactions with the other characters serve to reveal the nature of racial prejudice, the play also examines basic assumptions regarding the public’s treatment of women and the elderly. 2. Wine in the Wilderness (1969), also by Alice Childress, examines what it means to be a black American in a segregated and racist society. The play examines several of the issues touched upon in We...
Catherine Wiley
In the following excerpt, Wiley discusses both racial and feminist issues as they pertain toWedding Band. In the first act of Wedding Band, a scene of reading and performance occurs that lies at the center of a feminist interpretation of the play. Mattie, a black woman who makes her living selling candy and caring for a little white girl, has received a letter from her husband in the Merchant Marine and needs a translator for it. Her new neighbor, Julia, the educated outsider trying to fit in...
Bloom, Harold, editor. Modern Black American Poets and Dramatists,Chelsea House, 1995, pp. 51-63. Brown-Guillory, Elizabeth. “Black Women Playwrights: Exorcising Myths” in Phylon,Vol. 48, no. 3, Fall, 1987, pp. 229-39.
Austin, Gayle. “Black Woman Playwright as Feminist Critic” in Southern Quarterly,Vol. 25, no. 3, Spring, 1987, pp. 53-62. Childress, Alice. “The Negro Woman in Literature” in Freedom-ways,Vol. 6, no.l, Winter, 1966. pp. 14-19. Curb, Rosemary. “An Unfashionable Tragedy of American Racism: Alice Childress’s Wedding Band” in Melus,Vol. 7, no. 4, 1980,...
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