Word: joes
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...education. He haunted the local libraries, reading everything from anthropology to verse, and eventually began to try his own hand at writing, first poetry, then folktale adaptations for performance at a science museum, then plays. By the time Wilson, 42, brought his poignant Joe Turner's Come and Gone to Broadway last week, he had established himself as the foremost dramatist of the American black experience. His Broadway debut, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, ran nearly ten months and earned the 1985 New York Drama Critics Circle prize. Fences won the theater's triple crown -- the 1987 Tony, Pulitzer Prize...
...Joe Turner, Wilson's third major work, is a sprawling ensemble piece, full of grace notes and epiphanies. It takes place in a Pittsburgh boardinghouse in 1911 where the tenants are mostly drifters in work and love: they act as aimless as if newly freed, though they are much too young to have been slaves themselves. The dramatic center is Delroy Lindo's harrowing performance as the one driven character, Herald Loomis. Poor and desperate, clutching his painfully thin eleven-year-old daughter, he bursts in seeking his wife, whom he lost years before when he was taken captive...
Wilson's fourth opus, The Piano Lesson, has already been produced at Yale. Like Joe Turner, it marries a naturalistic slice of life with mystic imagery. Set in 1936, it portrays a clan divided between struggling toward independence in the rural South and seeking a new life in the urban North, and it ends with a ritual exorcism. In a sense, all Wilson's plays are exorcisms, doomed but determined attempts to drive out the demons of memory. Says he: "The stigma of slavery is powerful. A few years ago, I went to a Passover service, and the first words...
...Arthur Hochstein, Billy Powers, John F. White, Barbara Wilhelm (Assistant Directors); Angel Ackemyer, James Elsis, Carol March (Designers); Nickolas Kalamaras Layout: Steve Conley (Chief); John P. Dowd (Deputy); Stefano Arata, Joseph Aslaender, David Drapkin, Nomi Silverman, Kenneth Smith, Eugene Tick Maps and Charts: Paul J. Pugliese (Chief); Cynthia Davis, Joe Lertola, E. Noel McCoy, Nino Telak, Deborah L. Wells...
...Joe Biden, the Delaware senator who was forced to withdraw from the presidential race this year after being caught borrowing speeches, is already looking ahead to the 1992 race. Gary Hart can't be far behind...