Synopsis
Joe Turner's Come and Gone
$10.99
Published by Samuel French Inc
6 Male 5 Female
Set in a black boardinghouse in Pittsburgh in 1911, this drama is an installment in the author's series chronicling black life in each decade of this century
Each denizen of the boardinghouse has a different relationship to a past of slavery as well as to the urban present. They include the proprietors, an eccentric clairvoyant with a penchant for old country voodoo, a young homeboy up from the South and a mysterious stranger who is searching for his wife
"Gives haunting voice to the souls of the American dispossessed" ~ N.Y. Times
"It is Wilson's epic vision, power and poetic sense that lift Joe Turner to strange and compelling heights" ~ N.Y. Daily News
"A lovely, moving play" ~ N.Y. Post