Two Trains Running
by August Wilson
Awards & Recognition
Finalist: 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Nominee: Four 1992 Tony Awards, including Best Play August Wilson is the recipient of the 1986 Whiting Award for Drama.
Synopsis
Two Trains Running; A play set in a small restaurant in the Pittsburgh Hill District in 1969.
Part of August Wilson's Century Cycle, his epic dramatisation of the African American experience in the twentieth century.
Press Reviews
"Wilson has written roles for actors to love, complete with riffs and full blown emotional arias."
— New York Newsday
"The most comic of the Wilson cycle so far."
— The Christian Science Monitor
"Wilson's most adventurous and honest attempt to reveal the intimate heart of history."
— The New York Times
Characters
| Character |
|---|
Sterling |
Memphis |
Holloway |
Wolf |
Risa |
West |
Hambone |
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Publication
Two Trains Running is a play written by August Wilson and published by Nick Hern Books (2015).
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Samuel French · 2015 · 100 pp
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