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Seven Guitars | |
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Written by | August Wilson |
Characters | Louise Canewell Red Carter Vera Hedley Floyd Barton Ruby |
Date premiered | 1995 |
Place premiered | Goodman Theatre Chicago, Illinois |
Original language | English |
Series | The American Century Cycle |
Subject | an aspiring blues musician, a sick old man, three single women and the plight of African-American postwar urban poverty |
Genre | Tragicomedy |
Setting | 1940s; The backyard of a boardinghouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Seven Guitars is a 1995 play by American playwright August Wilson. It focuses on seven African-American characters in the year 1948. The play begins and ends after the funeral of one of the main characters, showing events leading to the funeral in flashbacks. Seven Guitars represents the 1940s entry in Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle, a decade-by-decade anthology of African-American life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the twentieth century; Wilson would revisit the stories of some of these characters in King Hedley II, set in the 1980s.