CONCEPT FOR A PLAY

Chapter 3 ' The PlaYwright's Vision

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fi""" l'o nunt f't"' i' a characte'r featured in Wilson's last play' Gem of

.- ciaRashadplaysAuntEsterintheBroadwayf'oa"tionoftheplaypresentedin2005anddirected

: rr-rd of Wilscln's century tn 1997 ' -. l.iouse on \\rylie Avenue, now an . : r i'righ-rise developrnent' Joe Tru'-

.i Gine. set in 1911, follows Gezz rl.rronologically, and like that plav

- :::lcters *'"ho ,." close to the experi- - 11',

- .. rri this chapter is the artistic vision

' :'icht, a ,rision that emerges from

the plal'w'right's imagination and is shaped bv

iir. pr"n".ight's personal history and. responses to cultural influences' Bv srudying the text

of 'in,

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'il ;6;, .he oregon Shakespeare-Festival' u'-e

"trfl"; the foundat-ion of August \\rilson's

work

,"'Jif-,. wrv his vision is realized in perforrnance'

Tir"--.".i." text of the plav is included in the

chapter.