Joe Turner's Come and Gone

by August Wilson, Romulus Linney (Foreword by)

Overview

Set in 1911 in a boarding house in Pittsburgh, Joe Turner's Come and Gone deals with a time in American history when the sons and daughters of recently freed slaves journeyed to the booming industrial cities of the North in search of prosperity, a new way of life, and, essentially, their own identities.

The play is part of August Wilson's Century Cycle, his epic dramatization of the African American experience in the twentieth century.

This edition includes a foreword by Romulus Linney.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781559362986
Publisher:	Theatre Communications Group
Publication date:	04/01/2008
Series:	August Wilson's Century Cycle , #2
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

August Wilson (1945–2005) is the most influential and successful African American playwright. A two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author, his plays have been produced all over the world.

Editorial Reviews

"As rich in religious feeling as in historical detail, Joe Turner is at once a teeming canvas of black America and a spiritual allegory with a Melville whammy . . . Joe Turner is flecked with hypnotic storytelling soliloquies as grittily redolent of itinerant America as those in The Iceman Cometh."—Frank Rich, The New York Times

"Has the haunting power of a ghost story . . . bold theatricality . . . electrifying."—The Washington Post

"August Wilson's best play!"—William A. Henry III, Time magazine

"Joe Turner's Come and Gone is one of the best American plays of the decade . . . he takes us through joy and disaster, hatred and love; he pulls few punches and in the end he has contributed not only to the stature of American playwrighting but to our understanding of our society. A rich, rewarding play, that rare work what entertains while it teaches."—The Providence Journal

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