Compare the nuanced writing here with the far broader strokes this playwright uses to assemble her theater ensemble in the first act of “Trouble.” In “Wedding Band,” the seamstress Julia (Brittany Bradford) has just moved into one of the properties owned by the righteous Fanny (Elizabeth Van Dyke sails on material that’s comic gold). “Wedding Band” is a stronger, more accomplished play than “Trouble in Mind,” and one of its greatest assets is the vivid community of four African American women that Childress creates in the play’s opening scenes. Childress refused, and “Wedding Band” did not receive its Gotham debut until 1972 at the Public Theater. Back in 1966, New York producers wanted her story of an interracial love affair to focus more on the white male character. “Wedding Band” opened Sunday at Brooklyn’s Polonsky Shakespeare Center under the auspices of Theatre for a New Audience, and it’s clear that Childress made the right decision not to change a word of her follow-up play. ‘A Case for the Existence of God’ Off Broadway Review: A Riveting, Deceptively Simple 2-Hander
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