Gem of the Ocean
Hardback, 128 pages ISBN: 9781559362818Publication Date:
10 Apr 2008
Size: 221mm x 143mm£25.00
First Staged:
Goodman Theatre, Chicago, 2003; Broadway 2004

Gem of the Ocean

By August Wilson

Hardback £25.00

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The first play in August Wilson's Century Cycle, his epic dramatisation of the African American experience in the twentieth century.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1904. Aunt Esther, the 285-year-old fiery matriarch of 1839 Wylie Avenue, sets Citizen Barlow, a young man from Alabama, on a soaring, lyrical journey of spiritual awakening.

This Theatre Communications Group edition includes a foreword by Phylicia Rashad, who created the role of Aunt Ester in the play's Broadway run.

'August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean is like a great and mighty ship riding the waves of history' Phylicia Rashad, from her Foreword

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'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'

New York Times
Hardback,128 pages ISBN: 9781559362818Publication Date:
10 Apr 2008
Size: 221mm x 143mm£25.00

Also by August Wilson:

Radio Golf
Fences
The Ground On Which I Stand
Seven Guitars
King Hedley II
The Piano Lesson
King Hedley II
Two Trains Running
Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Radio Golf
Jitney

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