Director donnie l. betts (award-successful documentary filmmaker, theater director, and podcast host) and Steffen Beal stopped by KUVO to chat with Tree King on Mid-morning jazz about “Gem of the Ocean.”
It’s the past weekend and not to be missed! April 12, 13, and 14 at Aurora Fox Arts Center.
Pittsburgh, 1904: Looking for redemption, a youthful southerner, Citizen Barlow, comes at the doorstep of the famous Aunt Ester, a 285-yr-aged religious manual. There he fulfills Solly Two Kings, a previous slave turned Underground Railroad conductor. As a result of a sequence of intertwining events, their lives turn into for good altered, as Citizen Barlow is taken on a mythical journey of awakening to the Town of Bones, noticing the price of group and the electrical power of perception.
A 2005 Tony Award Nominee for Very best Perform, “Gem of the Ocean” is the first in Aurora Fox’s commitment to manufacturing August Wilson’s 10-engage in “The American Century Cycle.” Boasting a number of Tony Awards and Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, the cycle follows the lives of Black People in america all through just about every ten years of the 20th century.
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