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(0)August Wilson
Author
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
The protagonist of Fences (part of Wilsons ten-part Pittsburgh Cycle plays), Troy Maxson, is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s, a spirit that is changing the world Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can,...
3) Fences
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First Plume edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 101 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The protagonist of Fences (part of Wilsons ten-part Pittsburgh Cycle plays), Troy Maxson, is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s, a spirit that is changing the world Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
ix, 99 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Paints a portrait of the African-American experience in the changing decade of the 1960s through the lives of restaurant owner Memphis Lee and the people who live in his Pittsburgh block, which is scheduled for demolition.
Author
Series
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
107 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
It is the spring of 1948. In the still cool evenings of Pittsburgh's Hill district, familiar sounds fill the air. A rooster crows. Screen doors slam. The laughter of friends gathered for a backyard card game rises just above the wail of a mother who has lost her son. And there's the sound of the blues, played and sung by young men and women with little more than a guitar in their hands and a dream in their hearts. August Wilson's Seven Guitars is...
6) Radio golf
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
©2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
81 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The last of August Wilson's ten-play chronicle of the African-American experience, in which Aunt Ester's former home in Pittsburgh is slated for demolition in 1990 to make way for a real estate venture designed to revitalize the area, and Harmond Wilks makes a run for mayor.
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
85 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Set in 1904 Pittsburgh, it is chronologically the first work in August Wilson's decade-by-decade cycle dramatizing the African American experience during the 20th century-an unprecedented series that includes the Pulitzer Prize-winning plays Fences and The Piano Lesson. Aunt Esther, the drama's 285-year-old fiery matriarch, welcomes into her Hill District home Solly Two Kings, who was born into slavery and scouted for the Union Army, and Citizen Barlow,...
10) Jitney
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2003, ©2000
Physical Desc
96 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1970s in Pittsburgh's Hill District, and depicting gypsy cabdrivers who serve black neighborhoods.
12) King Hedley II
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
xi, 103 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set in 1985 in two tenement backyards in Pittsburgh's Hill District, King Hedley II continues playwright August Wilson's monumental cycle of plays chronicling African American life in twentieth century America. An epic tragedy of the common man and the crushing weight of everyday life and our ultimate struggle to regain our sense of community and culture in a crumbling urban society"--Back cover.
13) Fences
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1950s Pittsburgh, a Black garbage collector named Troy Maxson--bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues--is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.