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August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w, 6m
“Gives haunting voice to the souls of the American dispossessed.” – The New York Times
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Cast Size
5w, 6m -
Duration
More than 120 minutes (2 hours) -
Subgenre
Period -
Target Audience
Adult
Accolades
- August Wilson is the recipient of the 1986 Whiting Award for Drama
Details
Summary
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.
History
After premiering at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut in April 1986, Joe Turner's Come and Gone premiered on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on March 27, 1988. Directed by Lloyd Richards, the production featured
Kimberleigh Aarn, Angela Bassett, L. Scott Caldwell, Richard Parnell Habersham, Ed Hall, Delroy Lindo, Jamila Perry, Bo Rucker, Raynor Scheine, Kimberly Scott and Mel Winkler.
Cast Attributes
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Performing Groups
- Time Period 1910s/WWI
- Setting Pittsburgh. August, 1911.
- Features Period Costumes
- Duration More than 120 minutes (2 hours)
Media
“A lovely, moving play.” – New York Post
“Gives haunting voice to the souls of the American dispossessed.” – The New York Times
“It is Wilson's epic vision, power and poetic sense that lift Joe Turner to strange and compelling heights.” – New York Daily News
Licensing & Materials
- Minimum Fee: £70 per performance plus VAT when applicable.