Cast Set for EMMA Reimagining at The Abbey Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 14, 2024
The Abbey Theatre has revealed the cast for EMMA, a reimagining of Jane Austen's classic for the 'brat' Bridgerton era. The production runs from November 2024 to January 2025 on the Abbey Stage.
Review: WEDDING BAND, Lyric Hammersmith
by Cindy Marcolina - Jun 7, 2024
Interracial marriage has been legal in the United States for less than six decades. To put it into perspective, sliced bread was first sold forty years earlier. Set in 1918 South Carolina, Wedding Band is a blistering portrayal of unjust laws and discrimination, of conscious and unconscious bias, of finding love inside hopeless prejudice. Alice Childress’ American classic describes a Deep South riddled with hatred and stigma, a picture that’s uncomfortably close to a certain party’s opinions and that, sixty years later, remains unfortunately topical. A white baker and a black seamstress defy public opinion in this sombre drama.
Cast Set For WEDDING BAND at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Apr 16, 2024
Lyric Hammersmith Theatre has announced the full cast and creative team for the UK premiere of Alice Childress’ Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White, directed by Stage Debut Award winner Monique Touko, who returns to the Lyric after the smash-hit production of School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play.