Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play It is the spring of 1948.
Together, they reminisce about his short life and discover the unspoken passions and undying spirit that live within each of them..
The story follows a small group of friends who gather following the untimely death of Floyd Schoolboy Barton, a local blues guitarist on the edge of stardom.
August Wilson\'s Seven Guitars is the sixth chapter in his continuing theatrical saga that explores the hope, heartbreak, and heritage of the African-American experience in the twentieth century.
And there\'s the sound of the blues, played and sung by young men and women with little more than a guitar in their hands and a dream in their hearts.
The laughter of friends gathered for a backyard card game rises just above the wail of a mother who has lost her son.
Screen doors slam.
A rooster crows.
In the still cool evenings of Pittsburgh\'s Hill district, familiar sounds fill the air.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play It is the spring of 1948
