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Seven Guitars
August Wilson
Seven Guitars
by August Wilson
Broadway
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Awards & Recognition
Drama Critics Circle Pulitzer Prize
Finalist: 1995 Pulitzer Prize in Drama Winner! New York Drama Critics Award for Best Play August Wilson is the recipient of the 1986 Whiting Award for Drama
Synopsis
Full Length Tragic comedy
Characters: 4 male 3 female Exterior Set The sixth in the author's decade by decade exploration of the black experience in America two of which have won Pulitzer Prizes Seven Guitars is part bawdy comedy part dark elegy and part mystery.
In the backyard of a Pittsburgh tenement in 1948 friends gather to mourn for a blues guitarist and singer who died just as his career was on the verge of taking off.
The action that follows is
Press Reviews
"Displays a narrative sweep and almost biblical richness of language and character... Mr. Wilson writes so vividly that the play seems to have the narrative scope and depth of a novel."
— The New York Times
"Impressive... with wild, untamed elements of symbolic fantasy, and the language... is used with the specific riff-like fluency and emotional impact of jazz."
— New York Post
Characters
| Character |
|---|
| Red Carter |
| Vera Dotson |
| Louise |
| Hedley |
| Floyd “Schoolboy” Barton |
| Ruby |
| Canewell |
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Publication
Publisher Samuel French
Year 2011
Binding Paperback
Pages 126
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573696008
ISBN-10 0573696004
LCC PS3573.I45677 S48 1996b
Seven Guitars is a American comedy play written by August Wilson and published by Samuel French in New York (2011).
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