Dear White People: TWO TRAINS RUNNING is not a play about race

phindie: August Wilson’s TWO TRAINS RUNNING is not a play about race. Set in 1969 Pittsburgh against the backdrop of racial tension amplified by the deaths of Dr. King and Malcolm X, it is a play that comments on these events. Briefly. Literally, characters hold a brief conversation addressing the recent assassinations of these influential figures, but said conversation more emphasises the subject of death than it does race.