By May S. Ruiz August Wilson, a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, wrote a cycle of ten plays collectively called the ‘American Century Cycle’ which he set in a different decade of the 20th century. Each of the plays chronicles the complexities of the changing social and historical landscape of the African American experience over the…
By Brianna Chu Gem of the Ocean is the first of Pulitzer Prize award-winning playwright August Wilson’s Century Cycle. The cycle is comprised of ten plays, each of which is set in a different decade of the 19th century, capturing the lives and turmoil of everyday African-Americans in each decade. A Noise Within’s productions routinely…
