![]() ![]() ![]() But in other ways, Gem of the Ocean is singular: It may well be the most assured and resonant of his plays, with Wilson's voice at its clearest and most oracular. ![]() Stylistically, it's most like Joe Turner's Come and Gone, set in 1911, and Wilson's favorite of his previous plays (his least favorite is his most lauded, Fences, which OSF will do next season). New York Times critic Ben Brantley calls it the "touchstone" of his work, and it is that, on many levels. Gem of the Ocean is chronologically the first, set in 1904, but it was the next to last he wrote. īefore his untimely death in 2005, August Wilson completed his 10-play "Pittsburgh Cycle," one play about the African American experience set in each decade of the 20th century, an unprecedented achievement in American theatre. If I were closer than four hours away, I'd see it several more times before it closes on Oct. 6.) But I've just seen the production I would favor over all others. ![]() There's a little more than a month left in the current Oregon Shakespeare Festival season, and a couple of the plays I liked and wrote about are still running ( As You Like It, Stoppard's On the Razzle ), as well as a few I will write about later in the column (Lisa Loomer's Distracted ) and next week ( Romeo & Juliet, and The Tempest, which end Oct. Aunt Ester (Greta Oglesby) takes Citizen Barlow (Kevin Kenerly) on a journey to the City of Bones in Oregon Shakespeare Company's production of Gem of the Ocean. ![]()
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