Wedding Band

Penumbra Theatre
270 N. Kent St St. Paul

A frank depiction of a forbidden interracial love affair remains provocative stuff to put onstage in this day and age; imagine the stir it caused when Alice Childress' Wedding Ban did it in 1962. This intricate examination of race, class and politics tells the story of a black seamstress and a white baker who wish to marry in the Jim Crow South. This couple will risk security and safety for love at the Penumbra Theatre in St. Paul.