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August Wilson's Seven Guitars

  • August Wilson
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, 1940s / WWII
  • 4M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573696008

"Displays a narrative sweep and almost biblical richness of language and character... Mr. Wilson writers so vividly that the play seems to have the narrative scope and depth of a novel."

The New York Post

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy

  • Time Period: 1940s / WWII
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Exterior Set
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre

  • Accolades:
  • Finalist! Pulitzer Prize in Drama (1995)
    Winner! New York Drama Critics Award for Best Play
    August Wilson is the recipient of the 1956 Whiting Award for Drama
The sixth in the author's decade-by-decade exploration of the black experience in America, two of which have won Pulitzer Prizes, Seven Guitars is part bawdy comedy, part dark elegy, and part mystery. In the backyard of a Pittsburgh tenement in 1948, friends gather to mourn for a blues guitarist and singer who died just as his career was on the verge of taking off. The action that follows is a flashback to the busy week leading up to Floyd's sudden and unnatural death.
REVIEWS:

"Displays a narrative sweep and almost biblical richness of language and character... Mr. Wilson writes so vividly that the play seems to have the narrative scope and depth of a novel."

 The New York Times

"Impressive...with wild, untamed elements of symbolic fantasy, and the language...is used with the specific riff like fluency and emotional impact of jazz."

 New York Post

Premiere Production: Seven Guitars opened on January 21, 1995, at The Goodman Theatre in Chicago, IL under the direction of Lloyd Richards.

Characters

  • Casting: 4M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Multicultural casting, Role(s) for Black Actor(s)

  • CANEWELL
    RED CARTER
    VERA DOTSON
    LOUISE
    HEDLEY
    FLOYD "SCHOOLBOY" BARTON
    RUBY

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    The sixth in the author's decade-by-decade exploration of the black experience in America, two of which have won Pulitzer Prizes, Seven Guitars is part bawdy comedy, part dark elegy, and part mystery. In the backyard of a Pittsburgh tenement in 1948, friends gather to mourn for a blues guitarist and singer who died just as his career was on the verge of taking off. The action that follows is a flashback to the busy week leading up to Floyd's sudden and unnatural death.

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