Description
An aspiring blues musician returns home to seek his fortune and reclaim his woman.
Author: August Wilson
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Published: 12/01/2007
Pages: 120
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.51h x 6.15w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9781559363013
ISBN10: 1559363010
BISAC Categories:
- Drama | American | African American & Black
- History | United States | 20th Century
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
About the Author
August Wilson is the most influential and successful African American playwright writing today. He is the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences, The Piano Lesson, King Hedley II, Ma Rainy's Black Bottom, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Seven Guitars, Two Trains Running, Jitney and Radio Golf. His plays have been produced all over the world. Tony Kushner's plays include A Bright Room Called Day and Slavs!; as well as adaptations of Corneille's The Illusion, Ansky's The Dybbuk, Brecht's The Good Person of Szecguan and Goethe's Stella. Current projects include: Henry Box Brown or The Mirror of Slavery; and two musical plays: St. Cecilia or The Power of Music and Caroline or Change. His collaboration with Maurice Sendak on an American version of the children's opera, Brundibar, appeared in book form Fall 2003. Kushner grew up in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and he lives in New York.