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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 814.54
EAN: 9781559362801
ISBN: 1559362804
Label: Theatre Communications Group
Manufacturer: Theatre Communications Group
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Date: July 17, 2006
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Sales Rank: 44550
Studio: Theatre Communications Group
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"No one except perhaps Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theater."-John Lahr, The New Yorker
"A swelling battle hymn of transporting beauty. Theatergoers who have followed August Wilson's career will find in Gem a touchstone for everything else he has written."-Ben Brantley, The New York Times
"Wilson's juiciest material. The play holds the stage and its characters hammer home, strongly, the notion of newfound freedom."-Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
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 Prizewinning 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. Gem of the Ocean recently played across the country and on Broadway, with Phylicia Rashad as Aunt Esther.
Earlier in 2005, on the completion of the final work of his ten play cycle-surely the most ambitious American dramatic project undertaken in our history-August Wilson disclosed his bout with cancer, an illness of unusual ferocity that would eventually claim his life on October 2. Fittingly the Broadway theatre where his last play will be produced in 2006 has been renamed the August Wilson Theater in his honor. His legacy will animate the theatre and stir the human heart for decades to come.
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The opening poetic elegy to the trauma and the triumphs of bondage and freedom that were the seeds of August Wilson's epic 20th Century play cycle are to be found with profound beauty in Gem of the Ocean.
In 1904, in the same Pittsburgh district that is home to all the works, the mighty, wise and supernatural Aunt Ester lives at 1839 Wylie (and address that matters in several other plays, as does Aunt Ester) with the help of Black Mary and Eli. She is a force of nature, a maternal figure who ... Read More
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Broadway theater playwright August Wilson presents Gem of the Ocean, the first play in a ten-play cycle about the African-American experience during the modern twentieth century. Set in 1904 Pittsburgh, Gem of the Ocean follows a long-lived, fierce-willed matriarch and the two men she welcomed into her Hill District home: Solly Two Kings, who was born into slavery and served the Union Army in the Civil War, and Citizen Barlow, a man from Alabama seeking a better life. A richly textured exploration of ... Read More
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GoO is August Wilson's first play in his ten-play epic cycle of African-American history. It is not so much literal history as metaphoric: the essential qualities of strength, endurance, and community are what hold the characters together. For someone not familiar with Wilson's work, the play may be curious, but for anyone knowledge about Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Two Trains Running, or King Hedley II, Gem of the Ocean is an important work.
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I remember thinking that I was inspired and wanted to write a blues song listening to the characters speak so colorfully in August Wilson's play, Gem of the Ocean. Phylicia Rashad and the entire cast were mesmerizing in the Broadway version I was lucky enough to see. I believe GotO is even more cinematic than The Piano Lesson, a Wilson play made into a movie that worked well on the screen, in my opinion. The story line of GotO spans a few days and engages and explores a spectrum of social and moral issues, ... Read More
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