TY - SER
KW - ministers
KW - ex-slaves
KW - ex-convicts
KW - steel industry
KW - Black Americans
KW - Protestants
AU - August Wilson
AB - Ester Tyler is a former slave who runs a Pittsburgh household and keeps alive its Black community's history and traditions. “Aunt Ester, the drama’s 287-year-old fiery matriarch,” says the play’s promotional copy, “welcomes into her Hill District home Solly Two Kings, who was born into slavery and scouted for the Union Army, and Citizen Barlow, a young man from Alabama searching for a new life.” 
C1 - 1904
C3 - Allegheny County; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Allegheny River; Pittsburgh; Hill District; Hazelwood; Rankin; Blawnox
C4 - Literary; Black; Slum; Psychological
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Playscript
N1 - The show premiered at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago on April 28, 2003.
N2 - Ester Tyler is a former slave who runs a Pittsburgh household and keeps alive its Black community's history and traditions. “Aunt Ester, the drama’s 287-year-old fiery matriarch,” says the play’s promotional copy, “welcomes into her Hill District home Solly Two Kings, who was born into slavery and scouted for the Union Army, and Citizen Barlow, a young man from Alabama searching for a new life.” 
PB - Theatre Communications Group
PP - New York
PY - 2006
RN - August Wilson (1945-2005), born Frederick August Kittel Jr. in Pittsburgh's Hill District neighborhood, won two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. He died in Seattle and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in O’Hara Twp., Allegheny County.
EP - 85 p.
TI - Gem of the Ocean
ER -