Seven Guitars

Hardback

Main Details

Title Seven Guitars
Authors and Contributors      By (author) August Wilson
Foreword by Tony Kushner
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:120
Dimensions(mm): Height 220,Width 139
Category/GenrePlays, playscripts
ISBN/Barcode 9781559363013
ClassificationsDewey:812.54
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.
Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.
Publication Date 17 April 2008
Publication Country United States

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.