![]() ![]() Please contact our Box Office with any questions you have about the suitability of this show for young audiences. TilghmanĬONTENT ADVISORY: This production contains language and adult content. Gem follows MTC's award-winning productions of Wilson's Fences (1950s) and Seven Guitars (1940s).įeaturing Margo Hall, Omoze Idehenre, Patrick Kelly Jones, David Everett Moore, Namir Smallwood, Juney Smith and Tyee J. ![]() Go to the beginning of August Wilson's epic Century Cycle: when slavery was still a recent memory and the notion of freedom precarious. Set in 1904 Pittsburgh, Gem of the Ocean begins August Wilson’s ten-play century cycle dramatizing the African American experience during the 20th century - an unprecedented series that includes the Pulitzer Prize winning Fences and The Piano Lesson.Īunt Esther, a fiery 285-year-old matriarch, welcomes into her Hill District home Solly Two Kings, who was born into slavery and scouted for the Union Army, and Citizen Barlow, a young man from Alabama searching for a new life.īay Area sensation Margo Hall returns to August Wilson’s Century Cycle in the role of Aunt Esther following her TBA award-winning portrayal of Rose in MTC’s 2014’s Fences and 2011’s Seven Guitars. “Illuminating, devastating and beautiful.” –David Templeton, Bohemian ★★★★½ ![]() “Actors of the highest quality.” –Charles Brousse, Pacific Sun “A gem… See it.” –Pamela Feinsilber, Huffington Post “Bold, exciting and engrossing” –Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle By August Wilson | Directed by Daniel Alexander Jones ![]()
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