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Gem of the Ocean
By : August Wilson
DESCRIPTION : ?No one except perhaps Eugene O?Neill and Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theater.??John Lahr, The New Yorker?A swelling battle hymn of transporting beauty. Theatergoers who have followed August Wilson?s career will find in Gem a touchstone for everything else he has written.??Ben Brantley, The New York Times?Wilson?s juiciest material. The play holds the stage and its characters hammer home, strongly, the notion of newfound freedom.??Michael Phillips, Chicago TribuneGem of the Ocean is the play that begins it all. Set in 1904 Pittsburgh, it is chronologically the first work in August Wilson?s decade-by-decade cycle dramatizing the African American experience during the 20th century?an unprecedented series that includes the Pulitzer Prize?winning plays Fences and The Piano Lesson. Aunt Esther, the drama?s 287-year-old fiery matriarch, welcomes into her Hill District home Solly Two Kings, who was born into slavery and scouted for the Union