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Gem of the Ocean: 1904
Hardcover
Series: August Wilson's Century Cycle, Book 1
20th Century United States HistoryBlack American StudiesPlays
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ISBN13: 9781559362818
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Published: Apr 1 2008
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.81 Depth: 8.68
Language: English
Gem of the Ocean is the play that begins it all. Set in 1904 Pittsburgh, it is chronologically the first work in August Wilson's decade-by-decade cycle dramatizing the African American experience during the 20th century--an unprecedented series that includes the Pulitzer Prize-winning plays Fences and The Piano Lesson. Aunt Esther, the drama's 287-year-old fiery matriarch, welcomes into her Hill District home Solly Two Kings, who was born into slavery and scouted for the Union Army, and Citizen Barlow, a young man from Alabama searching for a new 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 Phylicia Rashad.
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