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A 9 page discussion of the contemporary black playwright August Wilson and several of his works including but not limited to : 'The Piano Lesson' and 'Two Trains Running.'
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If nothing else, he is undoubtedly the most critically acclaimed black playwright in the world today:: twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1987 and 1990, winner
of New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1984 and, in 1992, the American Theater Critics Association Award, and winner of a prestigious Tony Award, to name but a few
of the distinctions given to him in his distinguished career. Wilsons ongoing cycle of plays on the Black experience in each decade of the
20th century has earned him Pulitzer Prizes for "Fences" (1987) and "The Piano Lesson" (1990). Center Stage (1993) had assembled a skilled cast of veterans to show a painful era
in America following the riots after Martin Luther Kings death which destroyed many Black areas including Baltimores Pennsylvania Avenue and D.C.s 14th Street. And when Broadway hits were bombarding the
country during the mid-eighties, there was one called "Ma Raineys Black Bottom" that did not follow the scheme of what all the rest of them were doing. The author
was August Wilson and his impact was immediately tremendous. After "Ma Raineys Black Bottom," a flood of Wilsons work traveled across the sea to Britain
as befits an author who had been writing virtually one play a year since Ma Rainey had its first reading in 1982 at the Eugene ONeill Playwrights Conference in Connecticut,
where, according to my research, Wilson is a summertime regular. In his career, August Wilson has achieved the unique distinction of winning the New York Drama Critics Circle Award
for Best Play three years out of four - for Ma Rainey, Senses and Joe Turners Come and Gone. Senses won both the Tony award and the Pulitzer Prize
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