Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award: At the suggestion of her friend Tennessee Williams, Southern writer Carson McCullers adapted her novella "The Member of the Wedding" into a touching and poignant play that was an enormous success when it opened on Broadway in 1950, and has long since become a classic of the American theater. With compassion, veracity and wit, in "The Member of the Wedding" Carson McCullers depicts the intrinsically enmeshed lives of whites and blacks in the American South. Julie Harris became a star playing the awkward, twelve-year-old tomboy Frankie Adams, who falls deeply in love with her older brother and his fiance. Exhilarated by her naive conviction that being a member of their wedding means she will become what she calls the "we of me," Frankie is devastated when she learns she is not invited on the honeymoon. Bernice Sadie Brown, who has experienced a lifetime of love and loss, is a surrogate mother for Frankie. Portrayed on stage and in the film versions by the great Ethel Waters, Bernice is an epic character, fiercely loyal, down-to-earth, and centered by deep faith.
0 有用 a little mark 2011-06-20 01:52:42
a play based on the original novel.
0 有用 阿晕君 2020-06-17 16:58:54
What impresses me most is the scene they spoke in the kitchen. If sounds can be like flowers and voices bloom. Frankie was lonely and desperate after the wedding, for the couple won’t take her with th... What impresses me most is the scene they spoke in the kitchen. If sounds can be like flowers and voices bloom. Frankie was lonely and desperate after the wedding, for the couple won’t take her with them. She didn’t want to live in the town forever. Finally she had new friends and move to another place. Summer was over. (展开)