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Two trains running

by Wilson, August.

Format: Print Book 2007
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Clairton Public Library Non-Fiction 812.54 W746 (1969)
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Community Library of Castle Shannon Non Fiction 812.54 Wilson Century Two
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Summary

Set in a small restaurant in the Pittsburgh Hill District in 1969, Two Trains Running is part of August Wilson's Century Cycle, his epic dramatisation of the African American experience in the twentieth century.

This edition includes a foreword by Laurence Fishburne, who played the part of Sterling in the original 1990 production and on Broadway.

'Wilson's struggle was to reveal the richness of black life as being both uniquely African and, at the same time, authentically American. The flawless integration of these ostensibly disparate qualities is the essence of his genius' Laurence Fishburne, from his Foreword

August Wilson's play Two Trains Running was first staged at Yale Repertory Theatre in 1990.

Published Reviews
Booklist Review: "With this play Wilson reaches the halfway mark in his labors to dramatically limn, one-decade-per-play, twentieth-century black American life. The fifth in the cycle, it is set in 1969 in a commercial-residential part of Pittsburgh slated to fall to a redevelopment scheme; specifically, in a soul-food restaurant run by Memphis Lee and habituated by a collection of characters including, besides Lee and his young cook-washer-waitress Risa, undertaker West (the richest local businessman), just-released convict Sterling, numbers runner Wolf, new Social Security applicant Holloway, and Hambone, a gentle madman preoccupied by the ham he feels the local butcher, a white man, owes him but has never delivered. These six men and one woman exemplify as many ways of living with white oppression and their own personal demons, and their collisions of temperament and motive are as vital and moving as any in American drama. ~--Ray Olson"
From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Additional Information
Series Wilson, August. Plays.
Subjects African Americans -- Drama.
Nineteen sixties -- Drama.
African American neighborhoods -- Drama.
Hill District (Pittsburgh, Pa.) -- Drama.
Publisher New York : St. Paul, MN :Theatre Communications Group ;2007
Distributed to the book trade by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution,
Edition 1st ed.
Language English
Notes "1969."
Description ix, 99 pages ; 23 cm.
ISBN 9781559363037
1559363037
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