August Wilson's Two Trains Running
- Full Length Play, Drama, 1960s
- 6M, 1F
- ISBN: 9780573704765
"Wilson has written roles for actors to love, complete with riffs and full blown emotional arias."
New York Newsday
Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
- 120 minutes
- Time Period: 1960s
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Interior Set
- Cautions: Mild Adult Themes, Strong Language
- Performance Group:
- Large Stage, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
- Accolades:
- Finalist! Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1992)
August Wilson is the recipient of the 1986 Whiting Award for Drama
It takes place in Memphis Lee's coffee shop in a Pittsburgh neighborood that is on the brink of economic development. Focus is on the characters who hang out there: a local sage, an elderly man who imparts the secrets of life as learned from a 322-year-old sage, an ex-con, a numbers runner, a laconic waitress who slashed her legs to keep men away, and a retarded man who was once cheated out of a ham. With Chekhovian obliqueness, the author reveals simple truths, hopes and dreams, creating a microcosm of an era and a community on the brink of change.
REVIEWS:
"Wilson has written roles for actors to love, complete with riffs and full blown emotional arias."
New York Newsday
"The most comic of the Wilson cycle so far."
The Christian Science Monitor
"Wilson's most delicate and mature work."
Time
"Wilson's most adventurous and honest attempt to reveal the intimate heart of history."
The New York Times
Characters
- Casting: 6M, 1F
STERLING
MEMPHIS
HOLLOWAY
WOLF
RISA
WEST
Available Material
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August Wilson's Two Trains Running Script
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This is the 1960's chapter of the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright's decade by decade saga of ordinary African Americans in this turbulent century. |
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