![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Please contact our Box Office with any questions you have about the suitability of this show for young audiences. TilghmanĬONTENT ADVISORY: This production contains language and adult content. Gem follows MTC's award-winning productions of Wilson's Fences (1950s) and Seven Guitars (1940s).įeaturing Margo Hall, Omoze Idehenre, Patrick Kelly Jones, David Everett Moore, Namir Smallwood, Juney Smith and Tyee J. Go to the beginning of August Wilson's epic Century Cycle: when slavery was still a recent memory and the notion of freedom precarious. Set in 1904 Pittsburgh, Gem of the Ocean begins August Wilson’s ten-play century cycle dramatizing the African American experience during the 20th century - an unprecedented series that includes the Pulitzer Prize winning Fences and The Piano Lesson.Īunt Esther, a fiery 285-year-old matriarch, welcomes into her Hill District home Solly Two Kings, who was born into slavery and scouted for the Union Army, and Citizen Barlow, a young man from Alabama searching for a new life.īay Area sensation Margo Hall returns to August Wilson’s Century Cycle in the role of Aunt Esther following her TBA award-winning portrayal of Rose in MTC’s 2014’s Fences and 2011’s Seven Guitars. “Illuminating, devastating and beautiful.” –David Templeton, Bohemian ★★★★½ “Actors of the highest quality.” –Charles Brousse, Pacific Sun “A gem… See it.” –Pamela Feinsilber, Huffington Post “Bold, exciting and engrossing” –Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle By August Wilson | Directed by Daniel Alexander Jones ![]()
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