Salvation in the City of Bones: Ma Rainey and Aunt Ester sing their own songs in August Wilson's grand cycle of blues dramas.(Theater Review) (theater review)
American Theatre, May, 2003 by Gener, Randy
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IN GEM OF THE OCEAN, THE PENULTIMATE ENTRY IN August Wilson's decade-by-decade cycle of plays chronicling the black experience in 20th-century America, Aunt Ester embraces into her fold Citizen Barlow, a restless soul who breaks into her house through a window. A troubled man in search of salvation, Citizen has been unsuccessfully trying to claim the citizenship promised in Abraham Lincoln's 1865 proclamation on the emancipation of America's slaves.
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Having committed some mortal crime, he has come to see Aunt Ester ostensibly to get his soul washed. Because he reminds her of a ...
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