When:
Friday, February 5, 2021
All day
Where: Online
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: $10
Free to current Northwestern University students with registration
Contact:
Wirtz Center
(847) 491-7282
Group: Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts
Co-Sponsor:
One Book One Northwestern
Category: Fine Arts
Vision and Voices, a Black Playwrights Reading Series Presents:
Wine in the Wilderness by Alice Childress, directed by Jasmine B. Gunter.
Run time: 90 minutes, with a talk back and designer presentations.
“For a time I thought I was about to move into another world, the so-called ‘integrated’ world … but that’s a lie.”
With race riots outside his apartment in 1964 Harlem, artist and sophisticate Bill Jameson paints his view of Black womanhood. While searching for his final model, a woman he describes as “as close to the bottom as you can get,” he thinks he has found a match in Tommy. But Tommy soon tests his toxic assumptions. Rarely staged since its debut in 1969, Alice Childress’ masterwork examines the intersection of race, gender and class in Civil-Rights-Era America.
Patrons will receive a link via e-mail that will allow them to view the performance On Demand prior to FEB 5.
$10
Free to current Northwestern University students with registration