Conversations with August Wilson by Bryer, Jackson R.
Conversations with August Wilson by Bryer, Jackson R.

Conversations with August Wilson

In little more than twenty years, playwright August Wilson (1945-2005) completed a ten-play cycle depicting African American...
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Author: Jackson R. Bryer
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Language: English
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Conversations with August Wilson by Bryer, Jackson R.

Conversations with August Wilson

$101.15
Conversations with August Wilson by Bryer, Jackson R.

Conversations with August Wilson

$101.15
Author: Jackson R. Bryer
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
In little more than twenty years, playwright August Wilson (1945-2005) completed a ten-play cycle depicting African American life in the twentieth century, with each play taking place in a different decade. Two of the plays--Fences (1987) and The Piano Lesson (1990)--were awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and seven of them received the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for best American play. Wilson was indisputably the most significant American playwright to emerge since Edward Albee.

Conversations with August Wilson collects a selection of the many interviews Wilson gave from 1984 to 2004. In the interviews, the playwright covers at length and in detail his plays and his background. He comments as well on such subjects as the differences between African Americans and whites, his call for more black theater companies, and his belief that African Americans made a mistake in assimilating themselves into the white mainstream. He also talks about his major influences, what he calls his "four B's"--the blues, writers James Baldwin and Amiri Baraka, and painter Romare Bearden. Wilson also discusses his writing process and his multiple collaborations with director Lloyd Richards.

Throughout, Wilson is candid, expansive, and provocative, displaying in these exchanges his willingness to confront controversial topics just as he did in his plays.

Author: Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 01/17/2006
Pages: 282
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.32w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9781578068319

About the Author
Jackson R. Bryer is professor emeritus of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is editor of Conversations with Lillian Hellman and Conversations with Thornton Wilder and coeditor (with Ben Siegel) of Conversations with Neil Simon, all published by University Press of Mississippi. Mary C. Hartig is coeditor of William Inge: Essays and Reminiscences on the Plays and the Man and The Facts on File Companion to American Drama.
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