“No one except perhaps Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theater.”—John Lahr, <i>The New Yorker</i><br /><br />“A swelling battle hymn of transporting beauty. Theatergoers who have followed August Wilson’s career will find in Gem a touchstone for everything else he has written.”—Ben Brantley, <i>The New York Times</i><br /><br />“Wilson’s juiciest material. The play holds the stage and its characters hammer home, strongly, the notion of newfound freedom.”—Michael Phillips, <i>Chicago Tribune</i><br /><br /><i>Gem of the Ocean</i> is the play that begins it all. Set in 1904 Pittsburgh, it is chronologically the first work in August Wilson’s decade-by-decade cycle dramatizing the African American experience during the 20th century—an unprecedented series that includes the Pulitzer Prize–winning plays <i>Fences</i> and <i>The Piano Lesson</i>. Aunt Esther, the drama’s 287-year-old fiery matriarch, welcomes into her Hill District h
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