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Wedding Band review: Nothing is black and white in this powerful story of love and prejudice in America's segregated Deep South, writes PATRICK MARMION
The slightly unsatisfactory title of Alice Childress's 1966 play disguises a very serious and admirably ambitious drama.
The slightly unsatisfactory title of Alice Childress’s 1966 play disguises a very serious and admirably ambitious drama about an illegal interracial relationship in South Carolina in 1918, as the USA prepares to enter World War One. Bookish, introverted, ginger-nut Kathy and bold, brazen, brunette Stella — complementary miss-fit children — met at primary school and bonded over their mutual interest in murder. By far the best are the quiet numbers: Kathy and Stella’s silly but soulful duet ‘If I Didn’t Have You (I Would Die)’ and Bronte Barbe’s even sillier solo ‘I Never Felt So Alive’ ...delivered in the morgue.
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