Two Trains Running
by August Wilson

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Two Trains Running Book Cover
Two Trains Running Cover

Highlights

120 mins1960sRole(s) for Black Actor(s)Interior SetPeriod Costumes

Awards & Recognition

Pulitzer PrizeTony Award

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

Year2008
BindingPaperback
ISBN-139780573704765
ISBN-100573704767

Two Trains Running is a play written by August Wilson and published by Nick Hern Books (2008).

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