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This play is ideal for readers interested in contemporary African American culture, historical dramas, and nuanced explorations of identity and urban change.
Set in 1997 in a storefront redevelopment office in Pittsburgh's Hill District, this book presents the concluding play in the author's ten-play cycle chronicling African American life during the twentieth century. It traces the forces of change on a neighborhood and its people caught between history and the twenty-first century.
-Production scheduled for McCarter Theatre (Princeton, NJ) April 2007 -Broadway opening May 2007 at the August Wilson Theatre
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Set in 1997 in a storefront redevelopment office in Pittsburgh's Hill District, Radio Golf is the concluding play in August Wilson's monumental ten-play cycle chronicling African American life during the twentieth century. This title was completed shortly before his death in 2005.
This bittersweet drama of assimilation and alienation in nineties America traces the forces of change on a neighbourhood and its people caught between history and the twenty-first century.
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ISBN: 9781559363082
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 19 June 2008
Country: United States
Imprint: Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 6.0mm
Width: 137.0mm
Height: 215.0mm
Weight: 143g
Pages: 96
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About the Author
AugustWilsonwas born in 1945 in Pittsburgh, where all of his plays are set. Despite an unsuccessful formal education, he was influenced by earlier black writers and penned his first play for a theatre company he had co-founded in 1968. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, the first in his ten-play cycle, was staged in 1982. He died in 2005 just after completing the final play.
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