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Alice Childress
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- 1"Wine in the Wilderness" Revival Sparks Debate Over Black Womanhood▼“Wine in the Wilderness” Turns an Artist’s Loft Into a Reckoning Over Who Gets to Define a Black Woman
A new production of Alice Childress's play "Wine in the Wilderness" stages its story in an artist's loft, framing the drama as a reckoning over who has the authority to define a Black woman. The revival is drawing attention to Childress's 1969 work and its enduring questions about representation, respectability and identity within the Black community.