August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone

August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone

August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone

August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Overview

Set in a Black boarding house in Pittsburgh in 1911, this tender and human drama by the author of The Piano Lesson, Seven Guitars and Fences is an installment in the author’s American Century Cycle, which chronicles Black life in every decade of the 20th century. Each denizen of the boarding house has a different relationship to a past of slavery, as well as to the urban present. They include the proprietors, an eccentric clairvoyant with a penchant for old country voodoo, a young man up from the South, and a mysterious stranger searching for his wife.

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Details

  • Genre: Period
  • Time Period: 1910s / WWI
  • Cast Attributes: Role(s) for Black Actor(s), Multicultural casting
  • Target Audience: Adult

Authors

August Wilson

August Wilson (April 27, 1945 - October 2, 2005) authored Gem of the Ocean, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson, Seven Guitars, Fences, Two Trains Running, Jitney, King Hedley II and Radio Golf. These works explore the heritage and experienc ...

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