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August Wilson's Radio Golf

  • August Wilson
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, 1990s
  • 4M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9780573706073

"With with and soul, Radio Golf brings to a close the most ambitious theatrical undertaking in the history of American theater."

The New York Sun

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy

  • Time Period: 1990s
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! New York Drama Critics' Cirlce Award for Best Play (2007)
    Nominee! Tony Award for Best Play (2007)
    Nominee! Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play (2007)
    August Wilson is the recipient of the 1986 Whiting Award for Drama
Radio Golf is a fast-paced, dynamic, and wonderfully funny work about the world today and the dreams we have for the future. Set in Pittsburgh in the late 1990s, it's the story of a successful entrepreneur who aspires to become the city's first black mayor. But when the past begins to catch up with him, secrets get revealed that could be his undoing.

The most contemporary of all of August Wilson's work, Radio Golf is the final play in his unprecedented ten-play cycle chronicling African-American life in the twentieth century -- a series that includes the Pulitzer Prize-winning plays Fences and The Piano Lesson. Completed shortly after his death in 2005, this bittersweet drama of assimilation and alienation in nineties American traces the forces of change on the neighborhood and its people caught between history and the twenty-first century.
REVIEWS:

"Surprising, suspenseful, and crowd-rousing. The final play in August Wilson's magnificent cycle has crackling comedy, engaging snap, and theatrical zest. In Mr. Wilson's world, the song, it seems, hasn't ended after all."

 The New York Times

"Gorgeous writing with a big heart! Not only is this Wilson's most contemporary work. It is also his most accessible and most unambiguously political -- and urgent call to remember what the 20th century has done to these people and its community."

 Newsday 

"The dialogue crackles with the poetry and fierce conscience that made Wilson one of this country's most essential artists."

 USA Today

"It's hard not to feel the tug of emotion as the curtain rises on Radio Golf, the final play in August Wilson's astounding 10-play cycle. It may be the clearest and most accessible of the lot, and the most rewarding. Watching, one ponders who will fill Wilson's shoes -- will anybody be so fearless and unflinching about the realities of black life in America? One doubts it."

 The Journal News

"Radio Golf brings the titanic undertaking of a great playwright to a conclusion, with some of Wilson's characteristically vibrant arias."

 Variety

"Radio Golf brings Wilson's amazing 10-play journey to an emotional,hopeful conclusion. The play's prime speeches are classic examples of Wilson's expansive, lyrical, and frequently very funny style."

 Associated Press

"With wit and soul, Radio Golf brings to a close the most ambitious theatrical undertaking in the history of American theater."

 New York Sun

"Capping a monumental achievement by one of America's most insightful playwrights, Radio Golf is a swift, engrossing drama brimming with Wilson's characteristic wisdom and humor."

 The Star-Ledger

"The culmination of one of the great achievements in the history of American Theater. Extremely funny, with wonderful characters and pungent dialogue. Radio Golf is a fitting conclusion to Wilson's master plan, a work that clearly, passionately and wisely states the author's themes."

 The Record

Premiere Production: Radio Golf was first produced at the Yale Repertory Theatre, under artistic director James Bundy and managing director Victoria Nolan, in New Haven, Connecticut, in April 2005. It opened on Broadway at the Cort Theatre in New York City on May 8, 2007. It was directed by Kenny Leon.

Characters

  • Casting: 4M, 1F
  • Casting Attributes: Multicultural casting, Role(s) for Black Actor(s), Ensemble cast

  • ELDER JOSEPH BARLOW
    STERLING JOHNSON
    HARMOND WILKS
    MAME WILKS
    ROOSEVELT HICKS

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    Radio Golf is a fast-paced, dynamic, and wonderfully funny work about the world today and the dreams we have for the future. Set in Pittsburgh in the late 1990s, it's the story of a successful entrepreneur who aspires to become the city's first black mayor. But when the past begins to catch up with him, secrets get revealed that could be his undoing.

    The most contemporary of all of August Wilson's work, Radio Golf is the final play in his unprecedented ten-play cycle chronicling African-American life in the twentieth century -- a series that includes the Pulitzer Prize-winning plays Fences and The Piano Lesson. Completed shortly after his death in 2005, this bittersweet drama of assimilation and alienation in nineties American traces the forces of change on the neighborhood and its people caught between history and the twenty-first century.

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