Jitney
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Nick Hern Books
Published:11th Oct '01
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
The seventh play in August Wilson's 10-play Century Cycle chronicling, decade by decade, the history of the African American experience in the 20th century.
Olivier Award for Best New Play
Jitney is set in the 1970s in Pittsburgh's Hill District, about a firm of mini-cab drivers who serve black neighbourhoods.
'No one except perhaps Eugene O'Neill or Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theatre' - John Lahr
'Prepare to be blown away... a wonderful play, tough, tender, bursting with life, love humour and pain... few playwrights alive today can match the eloquence and the passion of this one'
* Telegraph *'Soaring, profound and fantastically vibrant... More than perhaps any other contemporary dramatist, Wilson writes real people living real lives'
* Time Out, New York *'Thoroughly engrossing, Jitney holds us, its audience, in charmed captivity'
* New York TimISBN: 9781854596482
Dimensions: 198mm x 128mm x 7mm
Weight: 104g
96 pages