Description

August Wilson's Two Trains Running directed by Michele Shay

August Wilson has established himself as one of our most distinguished playwrights with his insightful, probing and evocative portraits of Black America and the African American experience in the twentieth century.

Synopsis

It is Pittsburgh, 1969, and the regulars of Memphis Lee's restaurant are struggling to cope with the turbulence of a world that is changing rapidly around them and fighting back when they can. The diner is scheduled to be torn down, a casualty of the city's renovation project that is sweeping away the buildings of a community, but not its spirit. For just as sure as an inexorable future looms right around the corner, these people of "loud voices and big hearts" continue to search, to falter, to persevere, to hope. With compassion, humor, and a superb sense of place and time, Wilson paints a vivid portrait of everyday lives in the shadow of great events, and of unsung men and women who are anything but ordinary.

Cast

Dorian Missick*

Alex Morris*

Nija Okoro*

Montae Russell*

Terrell Tilford*

Adolphus Ward*

Ellis E. Williams*

Production Stage Manager- Ed De Shae

Produced by Sophina Brown

*Actors appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association

***This is a guest production of The Matrix Theatre.

***The production is produced under the auspices of Actors' Equity LASPPC.