Joe Turner's Come and Gone

The play Joe Turner’s Come and Gone was written by August Wilson and was first staged at the National Playwright Conference in Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in 1984. This play is set to take place in 1911. Throughout the play, the main messages the author is trying to put across…

Set in Pittsburgh in the year 1911, just a little over 40 years after the emancipation proclamation, the play Joe Turner’s Come and Gone captures the unfolding drama of the times. As the promises made during the reconstruction era of American history was finally abandoned and the “savage man-hunting” characters…