August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone
- Full Length Play, Drama, 1910s / WWI
- 6M, 5F
- ISBN: 9780573691423
"Gives haunting voice to the souls of the American dispossessed."
The New York Times
Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
- Time Period: 1910s / WWI
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
- Performance Group:
- College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre
- Accolades:
- August Wilson is the recipient of the 1986 Whiting Award for Drama
Each denizen of the boarding house 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 up from the South, and a mysterious stranger who is searching for his wife.
REVIEWS:
"Gives haunting voice to the souls of the American dispossessed."
The New York Times
"It is Wilson's epic vision, power and poetic sense that lift Joe Turner to strange and compelling heights."
New York Daily News
"A lovely, moving play."
New York Post
Characters
- Casting: 6M, 5F
- Casting Attributes: Multicultural casting, Role(s) for Black Actor(s)
BERTHA HOLLY - his wife
BYNUM WALKER - a root walker
RUTHERFORD SELIG - a peddler
JEREMY FURLOW - a resident
HERALD LOOMIS - a resident
ZONIA LOOMIS - his daughter
MATTIE CAMPBELL - a resident
REUBEN MERCER - a boy who lives next door
MOLLY CUNNINGHAM - a resident
MARTHA LOOMIS - Herald Loomis's wife
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Set in a black boarding house 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. |
$24.95 |
