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Synopsis
Completely revised and reworked from the 1979 original, this play--the seventh in a series of ten about the black experience in the twentieth century--depicts gypsy cab drivers who serve the African-American community in Pittsburgh.
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About the Author
August Wilson is a major American playwright whose work has been consistently acclaimed as among the finest of the American theater. His first play, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for best new play of 1984-85. His second play, Fences, won numerous awards for best play of the year, 1987, including the Tony Award, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Joe Turner's Come and Gone, his third play, was also voted best play of 1987-88 by the New York Drama Critics' Circle. In 1990, Wilson was awarded his second Pulitzer Prize for The Piano Lesson.
Review
"No one except perhaps Eugene O'Neill or Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theater." -- John Lahr, The New Yorker
"The best play of the new year-by a hop, skip, and a mile! Speaking to us with such generous heart..." -- John Heilpern, New York Observer
"This Jitney is a transport of delight. So vividly written, ... it keeps you steadily amused, concerned, and moved." -- John Simon, New York Magazine
Thoroughly engrossing...Jitney hold us in charmed captivity. -- The New York Times
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- PublisherAbrams Press
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 158567186X
- ISBN 13 9781585671861
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages120
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