num_pages: 118
description: 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 fiancé. 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.
language: English
title: The Member of the Wedding: A Play
titlecomplete: The Member of the Wedding: A Play
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Queer, Drama, Read For School, Classics, Historical Fiction, Southern, Poetry Plays
ratings_count: 466
awards: awardedAt: -631123200000
name: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
category: Best American Play
publisher: New Directions