The August Wilson Century Cycle
ISBN: 9781559363075
$200.00 Hardcover
Theatre Communications Group
The Century Cycle is August Wilson's epic dramatization of the African-American experience and heritage in the 20th century. Each decade has a play; almost all of them are set in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, where Wilson grew up. The playwright's extraordinary lifework--completed just before his death in October 2005--has been called “one of the most ambitious dramatic projects ever undertaken" (New York Times). It is presented here for the first time in its entirety, in a ten-volume, hardcover, slipcased edition.
“No one else--not even Eugene O'Neill--has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theater.”--John Lahr, from his introduction
“It was in reading (The Piano Lesson) that I was struck by the beauty and accuracy of August Wilson's language as well as a richness waiting to be mined from the interstices between performance and text, between the stage and the readerly imagination.”--Toni Morrison
“By focusing on the eternal journey of the misplaced African, whose story was the truest account of the American struggle towards freedom and independence, he not only opened up what American theater could be about but also who could do the telling.”--Marion McClinton
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