Gem of the Ocean
| Year of Publication |
2006
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| Publication Type |
Playscript
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
85 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Author | |
| Publisher |
Theatre Communications Group
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| City |
New York
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| Abstract |
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.”
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| Notes |
The show premiered at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago on April 28, 2003.
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| Author Biography |
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.
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| Time |
1904
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