Joe Turner's Come and Gone
OFF SALE
Apr 24 – Jun 9, 2013
The Second INSTALLMENT OF Ten
It is August 1911 as the Great Migration brings a revolving band of strangers to the door of Seth and Bertha Holly’s Pittsburgh boarding house. Lost souls migrating to the industrial North in search of work, a new life, somewhere to belong.
In this historic drama, part of 10 celebrated works chronicling the African American experience of the 20th century, two-time Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award® winner August Wilson says, “They arrive carrying Bibles and guitars, their pockets lined with dust and fresh hope.”
With so many forces at work—mystical, emotional, financial—and the looming fear that Joe Turner will spirit them away back to the oppressive South—this unlikely family of strangers must forge new identities together or alone in this extraordinary drama helmed by Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad (director of last season’s triumph A Raisin in the Sun at the Kirk Douglas Theatre).
Creative Team
By August Wilson
Directed by Phylicia Rashad
Scenic Design John Iacovelli
Costume Design Karen Perry
Lighting Design Allen Lee Hughes
Sound Design Cricket S. Myers
Wigs and Hair Design Carol F. Doran
Original Music Kathryn Bostic
cast
Skye Barrett
Gabriel Brown
Keith David
January LaVoy
Vivian Nixon
Nathaniel James Potvin
Raynor Scheine
Erica Tazel
John Douglas Thompson
Glynn Turman
Lillias White
OFF SALE
April 24 – June 9, 2013
Mark Taper Forum
Originally produced by Yale Repertory Theatre, Lloyd Richards, Artistic Director. Joe Turner’s Come and Gone is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.