The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers

Different Stages opens its 2017 – 2018 season with Carson McCullers’ beautiful adaptation of her novella The Member of the Wedding.

The setting is Georgia in 1945 and the focus is on Frankie Addams: a tall tomboy suffering pubescent yearnings and a sense of fretful isolation. Ignored by her widower father, Frankie’s only real friendships are with the black maid, Berenice, and her six-year-old cousin, John Henry. But, in the course of the weekend when Frankie’s soldier-brother is set to marry, she attaches herself to the bridal couple and determines to run off with them. Excluded from local girls’ clubs, the solitary Frankie discovers in the newlyweds what she terms “the we of me.”