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September 9, 2016

After Hours: ‘Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story'

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Dedra Woods and Chris Ensweiler star in ‘Wedding Band,’ a love story set in 1918 in the Jim Crow South.

SEATTLE — “Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White” is a play set in 1918 about Julia, a black seamstress, and Herman, a white baker, who want to marry in the Jim Crow South.

It was written in 1966 by Alice Childress and runs through Oct. 2 in the Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse at The University of Washington.

Childress was an actress, novelist and playwright who was born in South Carolina in 1912, grew up in Harlem and died in 1994. She founded her own theater company, and one of her novels became a bestseller and was made into a movie.

“Wedding Band” stars Dedra Woods and Chris Ensweiler, and is directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton, who directed Intiman's 2013 production of Childress' play “Trouble in Mind.”

Curtis-Newton said Childress is not well known but her plays “talk about love and struggle in ways that make us see ourselves and hope to do better. They say, ‘Talk to each other.' It's a timely message — even today.”

Tickets are at www.intiman.org.



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