Lyric Hammersmith, London
Alice Childress’s powerful story of a biracial couple is set in South Carolina in 1918, but burns with the heat of the civil rights era when it was written
‘It’s wrong to hate, they say. It’s wrong to love, too.” So says Julia, a Black American woman who falls in love with a white man, Herman, when it is dangerous to do so. Alice Childress’s play is set in 1918 and was written in 1962 , but it was some years before a theatre dared to stage it amid the civil rights struggle
Julia (Deborah Ayorinde) and Herman (David Walmsley) live in segregated South Carolina where interracial relationships are illegal. The play opens on an anniversary when a wedding band is presented as a promise – a hope – of one day living as man and wife.
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