Seven Guitars

Play

Writers: August Wilson

Context

Seven Guitars is the fifth play in August Wilson’s Century Cycle. It was written in 1995 but takes place many years earlier, in 1948, in the the hill district of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for drama, nominated for the 1996 Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for best play, and went on to win the 1996 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play. It premiered at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and is one of August Wilson’s most well known and most widely produced plays. It is said that the play is called Seven Guitars because the seven

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