Jitney

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"A thoroughly revised version of a play August Wilson first wrote in 1979, Jitney was produced in New York for the first time in the spring of 2000, winning rave reviews and the accolade of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award as the best play of the year. Set in the 1970s in Pittsburgh's Hill District, and depicting gypsy cabdrivers who serve black neighborhoods, Jitney is the seventh in Wilson's projected ten-play cycle (one for each decade) on the black experience in twentieth century America. He writes not about historical events or the pathologies of the black community, but, as he says, about "the unique particulars of black culture...I wanted to place this culture onstage in all its richness and fullness and to demonstrate its ability to sustain us...through profound moments in our history in which the larger society has thought less of us than we have thought of ourselves.""--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Social life and customs,  African American neighborhoods,  Drama,  Nineteen seventies,  Taxicab drivers,  African Americans,  Nineteen hundreds (Decade),  African American families,  Fathers and sons,  Nineteen fifties,  Nineteen thirties,  Brothers and sisters,  Sharecroppers,  Land tenure,  Historical drama,  Heirlooms,  Nineteen sixties,  Blues musicians,  Nineteen twenties,  Boardinghouses,  Nineteen tens,  Musicians,  Drama (dramatic works by one author),  American drama (dramatic works by one author),  Nineteen nineties,  Real estate development

Places: Hill District (Pittsburgh, Pa.),  Pa.) Hill District (Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  Pennsyvania,  Philadelphia,  Pittsburgh,  Pittsburgh (Pa.)