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August Wilson Century Cycle Wilson, August
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781559363075
- Book Title
- August Wilson Century Cycle
- Publisher
- Theatre Communications Group, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Format
- Mixed Lot
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 5.9 in
- Genre
- Drama, Performing Arts
- Topic
- General
- Item Weight
- 106 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.8 in
- Number of Pages
- 1142 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group, Incorporated
ISBN-10
155936307X
ISBN-13
9781559363075
eBay Product ID (ePID)
18038736469
Product Key Features
Book Title
August Wilson Century Cycle
Number of Pages
1142 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
General
Genre
Drama, Performing Arts
Format
Mixed Lot
Dimensions
Item Height
5.9 in
Item Weight
106 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-022088
Dewey Edition
22
Number of Volumes
10 vols.
Dewey Decimal
812/.54
Synopsis
Series introduction by John Lahr with individual volumes introduced by Laurence Fishburne, Tony Kushner, Romulus Linney, Marion McClinton, Toni Morrison, Suzan-Lori Parks, Phylicia Rashad, Ishmael Reed, and Frank Rich. "No one except perhaps Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theater." --John Lahr, The New Yorker "Heroic is not a word one uses often without embarrassment to describe a writer or playwright, but the diligence and ferocity of effort behind the creation of his body of work is really an epic story. . . . For all the magic in his plays, he was writing in the grand tradition of Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, the politically engaged, direct, social realist drama. He was reclaiming ground for the theater that most people thought had been abandoned."--Tony Kushner August Wilson's Century Cycle is "one of the most ambitious dramatic projects ever undertaken." ( The New York Times) With it, Wilson dramatizes the African American experience and heritage in the twentieth century, with a play for each decade, almost all set in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, where he grew up. Wilson's extraordinary lifework--completed just before his death in October 2005--is presented here for the first time in its entirety. "Art is beholden to the kiln in which the artist was fired. Before I am anything, a man or a playwright, I am an African American. . . . The cycle of plays that I have been writing since 1979 is my attempt to represent that culture on stage in all its richness and fullness and to demonstrate its ability to sustain us in all areas of human life and endeavor and through profound moments of our history in which the larger society has thought less of us than we have thought of ourselves. The characters in the plays still place their faith in America's willingness to live up to the meaning of her creed. It is this belief in America's honor that allows them to pursue the American Dream even as it remains elusive. . . . They shout, they argue, they wrestle with love, honor, duty, betrayal; they have loud voices and big hearts; they demand justice, they love, they laugh, they cry, they murder, and they embrace life with zest and vigor. . . . In all the plays, the characters remain pointed towards the future, their pockets lined with fresh hope and an abiding faith in their own abilities and their own heroics."--August Wilson Titles included in the set: Gem of the Ocean Joe Turner's Come and Gone Ma Rainey's Black Bottom The Piano Lesson Seven Guitars Fences Two Trains Running Jitney King Hedley II Radio Golf, All ten plays in August Wilson's epic dramatisation of the African American experience in the twentieth century, published in a boxed set of hardbacks, with a series introduction by John Lahr. In 1982, black American playwright August Wilson set out to write one play for each decade of the twentieth century to capture the real lives of his people. He completed the cycle just before his death in October 2005. Each volume is introduced by an eminent fellow-writer. 'No-one else - not even Eugene O'Neill - has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theatre' John Lahr, from his introduction Most of the plays are also available as separate volumes. For more information, see the individual entries: Gem of the Ocean (1900s) foreword by Phylicia Rashad Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1910s) foreword by Romulus Linney Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1920s) foreword by Frank Rich The Piano Lesson (1930s) foreword by Toni Morrison Seven Guitars (1940s) foreword by Tony Kushner Fences (1950s) foreword by Samuel G. Freedman Two Trains Running (1960s) foreword by Laurence Fishburne Jitney (1970s) foreword by Ishmael Reed King Hedley II (1980s) foreword by Marion McClinton Radio Golf (1990s) foreword by Suzan-Lori Parks, Series introduction by John Lahr with individual volumes introduced by Laurence Fishburne, Tony Kushner, Romulus Linney, Marion McClinton, Toni Morrison, Suzan-Lori Parks, Phylicia Rashad, Ishmael Reed, and Frank Rich. "No one except perhaps Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theater."--John Lahr, The New Yorker "Heroic is not a word one uses often without embarrassment to describe a writer or playwright, but the diligence and ferocity of effort behind the creation of his body of work is really an epic story. . . . For all the magic in his plays, he was writing in the grand tradition of Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, the politically engaged, direct, social realist drama. He was reclaiming ground for the theater that most people thought had been abandoned."--Tony Kushner August Wilson's Century Cycle is "one of the most ambitious dramatic projects ever undertaken" ( The New York Times ). With it, Wilson dramatizes the African American experience and heritage in the twentieth century, with a play for each decade, almost all set in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, where he grew up. Wilson's extraordinary lifework--completed just before his death in October 2005--is presented here for the first time in its entirety. Art is beholden to the kiln in which the artist was fired. Before I am anything, a man or a playwright, I am an African American. . . . The cycle of plays that I have been writing since 1979 is my attempt to represent that culture on stage in all its richness and fullness and to demonstrate its ability to sustain us in all areas of human life and endeavor and through profound moments of our history in which the larger society has thought less of us than we have thought of ourselves. The characters in the plays still place their faith in America's willingness to live up to the meaning of her creed. It is this belief in America's honor that allows them to pursue the American Dream even as it remains elusive. . . . They shout, they argue, they wrestle with love, honor, duty, betrayal; they have loud voices and big hearts; they demand justice, they love, they laugh, they cry, they murder, and they embrace life with zest and vigor. . . . In all the plays, the characters remain pointed towards the future, their pockets lined with fresh hope and an abiding faith in their own abilities and their own heroics. --August Wilson
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