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August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone at the Fountain Theatre

Fountain Theatre (5060 Fountain Ave Los Angeles, CA 90029)
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The Fountain Theatre presents a revival of Joe Turner's Come and Gone from playwright August Wilson, the late giant of the American stage. Set in a boarding house in Pittsburgh during August, 1911, Joe Turner's Come and Gone tells the story of African Americans from the deep and near south who have gone north in search of loved ones and a cultural identity that was repressed by centuries of slavery, Jim Crow laws, discrimination, and Joe Turner's indentures.

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The last date listed for Joe Turner's Come and Gone was Thursday July 20, 2006 / 8:00pm.

Fountain Theatre
5060 Fountain Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90029
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323-663-1525 box office
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Great production of an August Wilson cycle classic
Written on Oct 03 2006

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Intriguing and very intense. This was an excellent performance.
Written on Mar 13 2006

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The play was excellent. The production was top-rate. The theater staff were helpful, cordial, professional.
Written on Jun 26 2006

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The direction was poor. The actors were clearly encouraged to speak as rapidly as they could--much faster than true, with no "real" time, no time to have the thoughts occur, no time for us to hear, savor, think about the lines.

As with Shakespeare, Wilson's dialogue will take care of itself: the less "acting" the better. This production was crammed with acting. There was a domino game at one point that was like a bad musical comedy number, with everybody (even bystanders) chortling and clucking and oohing and ahhing about moves, and dominoes being slammed down on the little shaky table from a great height, as if this were a climactic grand mime for the production. The one thing it was not was a simple little truthful domino game.

Simple, little, truthful was hard to come by in this overheated production, and of course that greatly diminished the power of the play.
Written on Jun 23 2006

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  • L.A. Times Critic's Pick!
  • "a living breathing masterpiece." --L.A. City Beat

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<p>August Wilson (April 27, 1945 - October 2, 2005) was a multiple Pulitzer-winning playwright. His singular achievement and literary legacy is a cycle of ten plays, each set in a different decade, depicting the comedy and tragedy of the African American experience in the 20th century.</p> <p>"By writing about black people, you are not limiting yourself. The experiences of African Americans are as wide open as God's closet." - August Wilson</p> <p>This is the Los Angeles revival of the 3rd in Wilson's ten-play cycle. Set in a boarding house in Pittsburgh during August, 1911, African Americans from the deep and near south come north in search of loved ones and a cultural identity that was repressed by centuries of slavery, Jim Crow laws, discrimination, and Joe Turner's indentures. Estrangement and loneliness turn into connection and community in one of Mr. Wilson's most beautiful, moving and haunting plays.</p>