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Set in 1970 in the Hill District of Pittsburgh that is served by a makeshift taxi company, Jitney is a beautiful addition to the author's decade by decade cycle of plays about the black American experience in the twentieth century.
"Explosive... Crackles with theatrical energy."-N.Y. Daily News
"Could be described as just a lot of men sitting around talking. But the talk has such varied range and mus
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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.
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"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
"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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- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0573627959
- ISBN 13 9780573627958
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- Number of pages98
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