Two Trains Running
August Wilson
August Wilson's Two Trains Running
by August Wilson
Broadway
Awards & Recognition
Pulitzer Prize Tony 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
Memphis Lee’s coffee shop lies in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, a neighborhood on the brink of economic development.
The restaurant serves as a hangout for a host of regulars: a local intellectual, an elderly man who imparts the secrets of life as learned from a 322-year-old sage, an ex-con, a numbers runner, a laconic waitress who slashed her legs to keep men away, and a developmentally disabled man who was once cheated out of a ham.
With Chekhovian obliqueness, the author reveals simple truths, hopes and dreams, creating a microcosm of an era and a community on the brink of change.
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 |
Publication
August Wilson's Two Trains Running is a play written by August Wilson and published by Samuel French .
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