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AUGUST WILSON (1945 - 2005) |
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Nationality: African-American Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: n/a |
Office: c/o John Breglio, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, 1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019.
Plays by August Wilson
Black Bart and the Sacred Hills | ||
| 1st Produced: | St. Paul | 1981 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37555 | |||
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Fences | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1983 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | New American Library, New York, 1986 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37556 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | About a former star of the Negro baseball league who is now a garbageman, and how his bitterness touches all that he loves. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gem Of The Ocean | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37557 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | When Citizen Barlow, in spiritual turmoil, seeks a new life at the bustling home of 285-year old Aunt Ester, he sets off on a magical journey across history and time to the City of Bones, where he discovers the true meaning of freedom | |||||
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How I Learned What I Learned | ||
| 1st Produced: | Seattle Repertory Theatre, 155 Mercer Street, PO Box 900923, Seattle, WA 98109 >>> | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51678 | |||
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Jitney | ||
| 1st Produced: | Allegheny Repertory Theatre, Pittsburgh | 1982 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37558 | |||
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Genre: | 2 act Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Set in 1970 in the Hill District of Pittsburgh that is served by a makeshift taxi company, Jitney is a beautiful addition to the author's decade by decade cycle of plays about the black American experience in the twentieth century. "Explosive. . . Crackles with theatrical energy." N.Y. Daily News. "Could be described as just a lot of men sitting around talking. But the talk has such varied range and musicality, and it is rendered with such stylish detail, that a complete urban symphony emerges. . .. Drivers return from jobs with stories that summon an entire ethos. . .. Throughly engrossing, Jitney holds us in charmed captivity." N.Y. Times. "Comic, soulful and immensely moving." Time Out. "A transport of delight! So vividly written . . . it keeps you steadily amused, concerned and moved." N.Y. Magazine. Winner of the New York Drama Critics Award for Best New Play and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off Broadway Play | |||||
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Joe Turner's Come and Gone | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1984 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1988 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37559 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | Follows the lives of spirited boarders in a lodging house, set in 1911. | |||||
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King Hedley II | ||
| 1st Produced: | Seattle Repertory Theatre, 155 Mercer Street, PO Box 900923, Seattle, WA 98109 >>> | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37560 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | the story of a man's salvation and a family's--and a people's--quest for redemption. King Hedley II takes place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1985, in the Hill District, an African-American ghetto neighborhood. The action occurs in the alley behind the rundown homes of King Hedley and his neighbor Stool Pigeon. On this tiny plot of ground, King is planting a small garden when we first meet him: out of jail following a long incarceration for murder, King is now determined to make things grow in his life. More tangible plans involve--in collaboration with his buddy Mister--a scheme to sell a batch of almost-certainly-stolen refrigerators and, possibly, a jewelry store robbery. King also is ripe to have a child with his wife Tonya; and he's eager to clear his mother Ruby out of his house (she's waiting for an opening in a senior citizens' building). Such are the homely, more or less ordinary circumstances of King Hedley's life. | |||||
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1982 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | New American Library, New York, 1985 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37561 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | "So what would you do if a 5ft, 15st blues empress burst into the room and declared that she wants to show you her black bottom? The only correct response is to say yes ma'am, and brace yourself. The Black Bottom is the name of a 1920s dance craze. Rainey is surprisingly far from the centre of her own play. In fact, much of the first half is spent waiting for her to turn up. In the meantime, her long-suffering band members engage in the time-honoured musician's ritual of hanging about, smoking reefer and chewing the fat. Foremost amongst these is Levee, an agitated young trumpet player determined to be an artist rather than a pawn in the white recording industry. The play only becomes truly compelling in the second half, when Rainey lets rip behind the microphone and Levee finally breaks. "The white folk only hear the blues come out," declares Rainey. "They don't know how it got there." Wilson's play takes a while to work up to this point, but it all becomes worth it when the fat lady sings. ", Guardian | |||||
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Mill Hand's Lunch Bucket, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1983 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37562 | |||
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Piano Lesson, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Haven, Connecticut | 1986 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | New American Library, New York, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37563 | |||
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Radio Golf | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cort Theatre, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern books, London, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #64878 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Radio Golf is the 10th and final play in the cycle about 20th century African American life created by the late August Wilson. It takes place in Pittsburgh in 1997, as Harmond Wilks, a charming and powerful African American politician, is running for the highest office of his career, with the loving support of his savvy wife, Mame. As Harmond steps into political prominence, the past is just a few steps behind him. . .and gaining fast. | |||||
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Seven Guitars | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37564 | |||
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Genre: | Tragi comedy Tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Floyd 'Schoolboy' Barton, an aspiring blues musician, returns home to seek his fortune and reclaim his woman; a sick old man longs for an heir to carry on his name; and three single women cope with betrayal and lost dreams. Like seven musical instruments, each one strikes a singular note in a discordant world. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Two Trains Running | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Haven, Connecticut | 1990 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37565 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | The uncertain future promised by the Civil Rights movement of the 60's | |||||
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