Awoye Timpo on Love, Hate, and Alice Childress’s ‘Wedding Band’

AMERICAN THEATRE: Few would deny the American theatre’s under-appreciation of Alice Childress, including Alice herself. A frequent contributor to magazines and newspapers, she published an opinion piece in a 1969 Sunday Times titled “But I Do My Thing.” In it she declared, “Time is up…I’ve a play to write that may never be seen by any audience anywhere, but I do my thing.”