Review: A shattered land tries to pull back together in 'Joe Turner'
At the Mark Taper Forum, August Wilson's play towers once again as it tells of a man, and a nation, seeking wholeness again after dark, dehumanizing days.The setting for August Wilson's magnificent "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" is a boardinghouse in 1911 Pittsburgh, but the spiritual location is a crossroads between the ghostly past and the forbidding future, slavery and freedom, despair and hope.
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