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Seven Guitars
Hardback
Main Details
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Seven Guitars
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) August Wilson
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Foreword by Tony Kushner
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Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:120 | Dimensions(mm): Height 220,Width 139 |
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Category/Genre | Plays, playscripts |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781559363013
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Classifications | Dewey:812.54 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.
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Imprint |
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.
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Publication Date |
17 April 2008 |
Publication Country |
United States
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Description
An aspiring blues musician returns home to seek his fortune and reclaim his woman.
Author Biography
August Wilson is the most influential and successful African American playwright writing today. He is the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences, The Piano Lesson, King Hedley II, Ma Rainy's Black Bottom, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Seven Guitars, Two Trains Running, Jitney and Radio Golf. His plays have been produced all over the world. Tony Kushner's plays include A Bright Room Called Day and Slavs!; as well as adaptations of Corneille's The Illusion, Ansky's The Dybbuk, Brecht's The Good Person of Szecguan and Goethe's Stella. Current projects include: Henry Box Brown or The Mirror of Slavery; and two musical plays: St. Cecilia or The Power of Music and Caroline or Change. His collaboration with Maurice Sendak on an American version of the children's opera, Brundibar, appeared in book form Fall 2003. Kushner grew up in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and he lives in New York.
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