Joe Turner's Come and Gone - Couverture souple

Wilson, August

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0573691428 ISBN 13 : 9780573691423

Editeur : Samuel French Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

Drama / Casting: 6m, 5f / Scenery: Interior Sets

Set in a black boardinghouse in Pittsburgh in 1911, this drama by the author of The Piano Lesson, Seven Guitars and Fences is an installment in the author's series chronicling black life in each decade of this century. Each denizen of the boardinghouse has a different relationship to a past of slavery as well as to the urban present. They include the proprietors, an eccentric clairvoyant with a penchant for old country voodoo, a young homeboy u

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson
Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play
 
“The glow accompanying August Wilson’s place in contemporary American theater is fixed.” –Toni Morrison
 
When Harold Loomis arrives at a black Pittsburgh boardinghouse after seven years' impressed labor on Joe Turner's chain gang, he is a free man—in body. But the scars of his enslavement and a sense of inescapable alienation oppress his spirit still, and the seemingly hospitable rooming house seethes with tension and distrust in the presence of this tormented stranger. Loomis is looking for the wife he left behind, believing that she can help him reclaim his old identity. But through his encounters with the other residents he begins to realize that what he really seeks is his rightful place in a new world—and it will take more than the skill of the local "People Finder" to discover it.
 
This jazz-influenced drama is a moving narrative of African-American experience in the 20th century.

Présentation de l'éditeur

From the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright of Fences and The Piano Lesson
 
“The glow accompanying August Wilson’s place in contemporary American theater is fixed.” – Toni Morrison
 
When Harold Loomis arrives at a black Pittsburgh boardinghouse after seven years' impressed labor on Joe Turner's chain gang, he is a free man—in body. But the scars of his enslavement and a sense of inescapable alienation oppress his spirit still, and the seemingly hospitable rooming house seethes with tension and distrust in the presence of this tormented stranger. Loomis is looking for the wife he left behind, believing that she can help him reclaim his old identity. But through his encounters with the other residents he begins to realize that what he really seeks is his rightful place in a new world—and it will take more than the skill of the local "People Finder" to discover it.
 
This jazz-influenced drama is a moving narrative of African-American experience in the 20th century.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Samuel French Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0573691428
• ISBN 13: 9780573691423
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 170
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Universal Music Group; https://www.universalmusic.com/contact-us/; ; 's-Gravelandseweg 80; Amsterdam; Pays-Bas