CMU School of Drama


Wednesday, June 08, 2011

August Wilson's 'King Hedley II' champions common man with beauty and brutality

Post Gazette: "One of the many aspects of August Wilson's genius is his talent for taking lowly specifics and exalting them as universals.
In 'King Hedley II,' which runs through June 12 at the August Wilson Center for African American Culture, a patch of dust behind a Hill District tenement is a man's soul laid bare, a video store represents his hope for a future, and the corpse of a cat stands in for the deals we try to make with God when justice is in short supply.

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