![]() ![]() ![]() 1910s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” – Set in Pittsburgh, the story of Seth and Bertha Holly and the migrants who pass through their boardinghouse during the Great Migration of the 1910s.ģ. 1900s “Gem of the Ocean” – A young man from Alabama visits Aunt Ester, a 285-year-old renowned cleanser of souls for help in absolving the guilt he carries from a crime he’s committed.Ģ. ![]() The list of 10 plays follows, in chronological order, are:ġ. Of course, this is all being done with the full collaboration of the August Wilson Estate. In the fall of 2015, Denzel Washington revealed that, in addition to the film adaptation of August Wilson’s “Fences” (which Viola Davis won an Oscar for this year), he also inked a deal with HBO that will see him bring to the screen, Wilson’s entire American Century Cycle series, which consists of 10 plays portraying the 20th century African American experience, from the early 1900s, just after slavery and the Civil War, to the 1990s.Īt the time, Washington shared that the deal with HBO would see him executive produce film adaptations of all 9 of the 10 plays (since “Fences” was made for the big screen) for the premium cable TV network, at a pace of one per year, for the next 9 to 10 years. ![]()
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