Lyric Hammersmith, LondonAlice 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 i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AM on June 7, 2024