It is Pittsburgh, 1969, and the regulars of Memphis Lee’s restaurant are struggling to cope with the turbulence of a world that is changing rapidly around them and fighting back when they can. The diner is scheduled to be torn down, a casualty of the city’s renovation project that is sweeping away the buildings of a community, but not its spirit. For just as sure as an inexorable future looms right around the corner, these people of “loud voices and big hearts” continue to search, to father, to persevere, to hope. With compassion, humor, and a superb sense of place and time, Wilson paints a vivid portrait of everyday lives in the shadow of great events.
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1990, Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven
2015
Samuel French, Inc.
9780573704765
Play with Music
A solo show telling the story of four friends, united in childhood and their lives in present-day Jamaica: a picture of lust, love and the forces that would seek to deny them. They navigate their complex relationships and love against a backdrop of misogyny and homophobia.
Plays with Music
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