Berkeley Repertory Theatre
2025 Addison St
510.647.2949
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Joe Turner's Come and Gone
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Oct 31, 2008 – Dec 14, 2008
Daily (schedule)
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$16.50 - $63
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August Wilson's series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, is the most ambitious and critically successful attempt ever to stage the African-American experience. One of the most intriguing entries, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, centers around Harold Loomis, an angry, wounded man searching for his wife and a new beginning after seven years of captivity in a notorious chain gang. Haunted by the recurring image of wet bones that fail to escape their watery grave, he is ostracized for daring to speak of what he sees. The allusion to the African-American struggle and the tortured legacy of slavery is unmistakable, chillingly insightful, and frighteningly timely.
