How can we ever come to terms with the crimes of the past? Aunt Ester, the 285-year-old “washer of souls” at the centre of this poetic masterpiece, has an answer. When a young man who is drowning in guilt comes to her door, she sends him on a quest to find the mythical City of Bones. His spiritual journey through history takes place against the backdrop of very real events in the 1904 Pittsburgh of the play. This is the first in August Wilson’s THE AMERICAN CENTURY CYCLE, his legendary ten-play cycle on the African-American experience in the 20th century.
“August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.
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The love story that has been sweeping hopeless romantics off their feet since the 19th century.
Georgina has reached the age where she must either get married or … or what, exactly?
