Chicago premiere! The Wedding Song centers on the imminent sexual awakening of two girls in wartime Tunis: Nour, an Arab, and Myriam, a Jew, both 16. The naked conviviality of women in the hammam, where virginity and sexual matters are frankly gossiped, and where rituals like the preparation of a girl for her wedding night take place, is central to story in which women's bodies become the ultimate battleground.
