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WHEN:
October 18 – December 1, 2024
WHERE:
City Lit Theater
1020 W. Bryn Mawr
Edgewater Presbyterian Church.
CAST:
Maureen Azzun, Brian Bradford, Andrea Conway-Diaz, Jordan Gleaves, Robert Howard, Jarvell Williams, Tiffany Williams.
CREATIVE TEAM:
Milo Bue (Scenic Design), Rachel S. Parent (Costume Design), Warren Levon (Sound Design), Mike McShane (Lighting Designer), Jeremiah Barr (Props Design), Micah Figueroa (Violence Design), Chels Morgan (Intimacy Coordinator), Carlyle DePriest (Casting Director), and Kristen Jett (Stage Manager).
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“...SEVEN GUITARS is the 1940s entry in Wilson's “Pittsburgh Cycle,” a decade-by-decade anthology of African American life. Like all but one of the cycle’s ten plays, SEVEN GUITARS is set in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. It follows six friends mourning the death of their friend Floyd "Schoolboy" Barton, a rising blues star trapped by his circumstances and cut down in his prime. Wilson later revisited the stories of some of these characters in KING HEDLEY II, set in the 1980s..."
