The seventh play in August Wilson's 10-play Century Cycle chronicling, decade by decade, the history of the African American experience in the 20th century.
Olivier Award for Best New Play
Jitney is set in the 1970s in Pittsburgh's Hill District, about a firm of mini-cab drivers who serve black neighbourhoods.
'No one except perhaps Eugene O'Neill or Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theatre' - John Lahr
'Prepare to be blown away... a wonderful play, tough, tender, bursting with life, love humour and pain... few playwrights alive today can match the eloquence and the passion of this one'
— Telegraph
'Soaring, profound and fantastically vibrant... More than perhaps any other contemporary dramatist, Wilson writes real people living real lives'
— Time Out, New York
'Thoroughly engrossing, Jitney holds us, its audience, in charmed captivity'
— New York Times
About the Author :
August Wilson (1945–2005) was an American playwright, best known for his series of ten plays, collectively called The American Century Cycle, which chronicles the African-American experience over the course of the twentieth century. It comprises Gem of the Ocean, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson, Seven Guitars, Fences, Two Trains Running, Jitney, King Hedley II and Radio Golf.
He won numerous prizes and honours, including two Pulitzer Prizes and the Humanities Medal from the President of the United States.
Review :
'Prepare to be blown away... a wonderful play, tough, tender, bursting with life, love humour and pain... few playwrights alive today can match the eloquence and the passion of this one'
'Soaring, profound and fantastically vibrant... More than perhaps any other contemporary dramatist, Wilson writes real people living real lives'
'Thoroughly engrossing, Jitney holds us, its audience, in charmed captivity'
