Jitney
Play by August Wilson
Jitney is a play by American playwright August Wilson. The eighth in his "Pittsburgh Cycle", this play is set in a worn-down gypsy cab station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in early autumn 1977. The play premiered on Broadway in 2017. Wikipedia
Playwright: August Wilson
First performance: 1982
Genre: Drama
Setting: 1977, a worn-down gypsy cab station in Pittsburgh's Hill District
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Jitney is a play by American playwright August Wilson. The eighth in his "Pittsburgh Cycle", this play is set in a worn-down gypsy cab station in Pittsburgh ...
SYNOPSIS: Set in the early 1970s, this richly textured piece follows a group of men trying to eke out a living by driving unlicensed cabs, or jitneys.
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Set in the 1970s in Pittsburghs Hill District, and depicting gypsy cabdrivers who serve black neighborhoods, Jitney is the seventh in Wilsons 10-play cycle (one ...
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Mar 6, 2020 · We meet a crew of such drivers in the play Jitney, set in 1977, hanging out in a rundown jitney cab office in Pittsburgh's Hill District.
Come on and play. Checker Champ. FIELDING. Turnbo, let me have four dollars. TURNBO (to YOUNGBLOOD, agitated). Will you come on and move, man! FIELDING. Let me ...
Recovering alcoholic Fielding, who used to be a tailor, is waging an ongoing battle against his alcoholism, even as his continued drunkenness threatens his job.
Jitney premiered at the Allegheny Repertory Theatre in 1982. Thirty-five years later, on January 19, 2017, the play made its Broadway debut at the Samuel J.
Only one of the plays in two-time Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson's masterful The American Century Cycle has never been seen on Broadway – until now.
It's among the finest productions of a Wilson play I've seen." Los Angeles Times. A jitney is an unlicensed taxicab. Five tireless drivers in Pittsburgh's ...