"Jitney" - by August Wilson - Actors' Shakespeare Project (Roxbury, MA.)
Actors' Shakespeare Project
Presents August Wilson's
"JITNEY"
Written by August Wilson
Directed by Christopher V. Edwards
Performances:
April 9, 2027 through May 9, 2027
(Contact Box Office for Exact Times)
In Partnership with Hibernian Hall, 184 Dudley Street, # 200, Boston (Roxbury), MA. 02119
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ABOUT THE SHOW
Get behind the wheel with the play that started the Cycle.
Long before he became known as “The American Shakespeare,” 34-year-old August Wilson wrote a play called "JITNEY" which would make its premiere in a small basement theatre.
Little did he know that this play would kick off the next three decades of his career and one of the greatest undertakings of modern theatre: "The American Century Cycle," spanning ten decades with nine Tony nominations, two Pulitzer Prizes and an impact that will continue to live long after Wilson himself.
In August Wilson's "JITNEY"- Jim Becker’s jitney company is in trouble.
Since licensed taxis won’t visit Pittsburgh’s Hill District, he and his vibrant cohort of drivers serve the neighborhood – spending their free moments at the station to gossip, joke around and settle old scores.
But just as the city threatens to shut down the station, Jim receives a surprise visitor on his doorstep – his estranged son Clarence, having just completed a twenty-year prison sentence.
With his classic wit and sharp dialogue, Wilson’s first entry in the Cycle sows the seeds for his ten-play exploration of community, family and legacy in Black America.
ABOUT THE ACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT
ACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT(ASP), founded in 2004, is an award-winning professional theater company with a Resident Acting Company and extensive education, youth, and community programs. ASP performs and works in found spaces, schools, theaters and neighborhoods to present and explore the robust language, resonant stories, and deeply human characters in Shakespeare’s plays and in works by other great playwrights. Work is ensemble-based and focused on intimacy, storytelling, language, relationships, voice, risk and artistry within and throughout the Boston area.
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ACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT believes Shakespeare’s words are urgently relevant to our times. Working as an ensemble of resident company members, ASP brings these words into the voices, bodies, and imaginations of actors, audiences, and neighborhoods. ASP does this through creative projects, including intimate productions and outreach programs that are informed by the spaces in which they happen. These projects inspire civic dialogue, build relationships between people, strengthen communities, and reveal something about what it means to be human here and now.
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