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The Resource Radio golf, August Wilson ; foreword by Suzan-Lori Parks

Radio golf, August Wilson ; foreword by Suzan-Lori Parks

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"August Wilson liked to say that his plays were "fat with substance." And he was right: his ten-play cycle - Wilson wrote one for every roiling decade of the African-American experience in the twentieth century - transforms historical tragedy into imaginative triumph. The blues are catastrophe expressed lyrically; so are Wilson's plays, which swing with the pulse of the African-American people, as they moved, over the decades, from property to personhood. Together, Wilson's plays form a kind of fever chart of the unmooring trauma of slavery." "August Wilson died on October 2, 2005. "I've lived a blessed life," he said. "I'm ready." Between the diagnosis, in mid-June, and his death, he had enough time to finish the rewrites of Radio Golf and set up the usual gestation period of out-of-town productions before the Broadway opening - a unique system that Wilson, Richards and his producing partner, Ben Mordecai, had set up as a kind of quality control. Wilson also lived long enough to learn that he would be the first African-American to have a Broadway theater named after him. No one else - not even Eugene O'Neill, who set out in the mid-thirties to write a nine-play cycle and managed only two - had aimed so high and achieved so much. Wilson's plays brought blacks and whites together under the same roof to share in the profound mysteries of race and class and the bittersweet awareness of how separate yet indivisible we really are."--Jacket
Language
eng
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Radio golf
Title
Radio golf
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August Wilson ; foreword by Suzan-Lori Parks
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eng
Summary
"August Wilson liked to say that his plays were "fat with substance." And he was right: his ten-play cycle - Wilson wrote one for every roiling decade of the African-American experience in the twentieth century - transforms historical tragedy into imaginative triumph. The blues are catastrophe expressed lyrically; so are Wilson's plays, which swing with the pulse of the African-American people, as they moved, over the decades, from property to personhood. Together, Wilson's plays form a kind of fever chart of the unmooring trauma of slavery." "August Wilson died on October 2, 2005. "I've lived a blessed life," he said. "I'm ready." Between the diagnosis, in mid-June, and his death, he had enough time to finish the rewrites of Radio Golf and set up the usual gestation period of out-of-town productions before the Broadway opening - a unique system that Wilson, Richards and his producing partner, Ben Mordecai, had set up as a kind of quality control. Wilson also lived long enough to learn that he would be the first African-American to have a Broadway theater named after him. No one else - not even Eugene O'Neill, who set out in the mid-thirties to write a nine-play cycle and managed only two - had aimed so high and achieved so much. Wilson's plays brought blacks and whites together under the same roof to share in the profound mysteries of race and class and the bittersweet awareness of how separate yet indivisible we really are."--Jacket
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Wilson, August
Dewey number
812/.54
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no index present
LC call number
PS3573.I45677
LC item number
R33 2007
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Parks, Suzan-Lori
Series statement
August Wilson century cycle
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  • African Americans
  • Nineteen nineties
  • Real estate development
  • African American neighborhoods
  • Hill District (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
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Radio golf, August Wilson ; foreword by Suzan-Lori Parks
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  • With a new foreword
  • "1997."
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31223123682016
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volume
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  • nc
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rdacarrier
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text
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  • txt
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rdacontent
Dimensions
23 cm.
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xi, 81 pages
Isbn
9781559363075
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(slip case)
Lccn
2007022085
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unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)137244768
Label
Radio golf, August Wilson ; foreword by Suzan-Lori Parks
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Publication
Note
  • With a new foreword
  • "1997."
Bar code
31223123682016
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Dimensions
23 cm.
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xi, 81 pages
Isbn
9781559363075
Isbn Type
(slip case)
Lccn
2007022085
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
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(OCoLC)137244768

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