Seven Guitars

Synopsis

<b>Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <i>Fences </i>and <i>The Piano Lesson</i></b>

<b>Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play</b>

It is the spring of 1948.

In the still cool evenings of Pittsburgh's Hill district, familiar sounds fill the air.

A rooster crows.

Screen doors slam.

The laughter of friends gathered for a backyard card game rises just above the wail of a mother who has lost her son.

And there's the sound of the blues, played and sung by young men and women with little more than a guitar in their hands and a dream in their hearts.

August Wilson's <b>Seven Guitars</b> is the sixth chapter in his continuing theatrical saga that explores the hope, heartbreak, and heritage of the African-American experience in the twentieth century.

The story follows a small group of friends who gather following the untimely death of Floyd "Schoolboy" Barton, a local blues guitarist on the edge of stardom.

Together, they reminisce about his short life and discover the unspoken passions and undying spirit that live within each of them.