Dec 18, 2009

The Oxford Dictionary of Plays | Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Author: August Wilson

First Performance: 1986, New Haven, Connecticut

Published: 1988

Genre: Com. in 2 acts

Setting: Boarding house in Pittsburgh, 1911

Cast: 5m, 4f, 2 children (1m, 1f)

Seth Holly, a northern black in his early fifties, owns a boarding house and makes pots and pans. Other residents of the boarding house are: Jeremy Furlow, a road-worker and guitar player; Bynum Walker, who grows herbs and is a bit of a mystic; and the newly arrived Herald Loomis and his 11-year-old daughter Zonia. Herald has come looking for his wife Martha. Mattie Campbell comes to ask Bynum's help in getting her man back, who had left her after the death of their two babies. Bynum cannot bring her man back but promises her a new one. Immediately, Jeremy asks her to come with him to a concert where...

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The Oxford Dictionary of Plays | Joe Turner's Come and Gone

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