Winner of the New York drama Critics Circle award for Best New Play, it is a play whose epic proportions and abundant spirit remind us of what the American theater once was (Vincent Canby The New York Times). Floyd Schoolboy Barton has fallen on bad times since blowing the money he got for recording his song, That's All Right. Now the song is a hit, and he has one more chance to make it in life.
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 Tony Kushner.
Winner of the New York drama Critics Circle award for Best New Play, it is a play whose epic proportions and abundant spirit remind us of what the American theater once was (Vincent Canby The New York Times). Floyd Schoolboy Barton has fallen on bad times since blowing the money he got for recording his song, That's All Right. Now the song is a hit, and he has one more chance to make it in life.
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 Tony Kushner.
| ISBN-13: | 9781559363013 |
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| Publisher: | Theatre Communications Group |
| Publication date: | 04/01/2008 |
| Series: | August Wilson's Century Cycle , #5 |
| Pages: | 120 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.80(d) |
August Wilson (1945-2005) left behind a body of nearly 20 plays, but a good deal of his life’s work consists of an incredibly ambitious project, one not really attempted by anyone else in recent memory, if at all. Wilson wrote a cycle, or a set of plays on a loosely related theme. Wilson’s theme is […]
