'Jitney,' in LA, Sings August Wilson's Song of the Forgotten Man
Only 34 at the time that he wrote his first play, Jitney, August Wilson may or may not have known just how the emotion-driven syncopation of his language " haunting and lyrical, yet searingly earthbound " would transform the landscape of American drama. One wonders, too, whether Wilson could also have anticipated Jitney's enduring resonance, […] The post 'Jitney,' in LA, Sings August Wilson's Song of the Forgotten …