August Wilson
August Wilson
August Wilsonwas an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Each is set in a different decade, depicting the comic and tragic aspects of the African-American experience in the 20th century...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth27 April 1945
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
impossible found hard
I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible....
funny-family like-family stranger
I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.
writing ideas america
There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.
death fastballs corners
Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.
father law play
When the sins of our fathers visit us We do not have to play host. We can banish them with forgiveness As God, in his His Largeness and Laws.
mistake trying done
I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself. - Troy -
lions may
I may be personable, but I assure you I am a lion.
land
Land [is] the only thing God ain't making no more of.
artist play giving
The director works as an interpretive artist, but he's still an artist, so you also have to give him room to create and to put his vision of the play or his translation or interpretation of the material on the stage.
creativity thinking input
I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I'm taking away something from them [designers]. I'm taking away their creativity and their ability to have input themselves, not just to follow what the playwright has written. So I do a minimum set description and let the designers create within that.
character play piano
I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along.
height firsts poet
I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
writing play support
If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.
writing space giving
I write for myself and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.