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    <body><![CDATA[This is something different that i ought to try. Rather than reading novels, i decided to read a play. This play is about how the main character, Herald Loomis was captured by Joe Turner 10 years ago so he was seperated with his wife. Loomis finally escaped and was trying to look for his wife. Peopl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59696305">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[     An excellent play that I read in literature class back my freshman year of high school. Lucky us being in Ashland, Oregon where the Oregon Shakespeare festival was putting this on, so we got to read it than see it.<br/>     At a boarding house, a collection of characters reside, chiefly a man ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40884881">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I saw Joe Turner's Come and Gone in March at the Kennedy Center with Russell Hornsby as the lead. Aside from Hornsby being an absolutely phenomenal actor (catch him in Lincoln Heights this fall), Wilson's script is powerful.<br/><br/>For those unfamiliar with Wilson's ten-play cycle, here's some b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19647124">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The play was well written and filled with imagery and allusions to religion, politics, slavery, and cultural identity.  I feel that reading and analyzing it enabled me to get some insight into the African-American Man.  But that was about it.  As a woman (of Caucasian origin at that)I did find it di...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8965600">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Set in a black boardinghouse in Pittsburgh in 1911, this play tells the varied story of blacks at the start of the great migration and self-identification.  Touching on heavy topics like life, death and resurrection this short but poignant play goes beyond he traditional black/white story following ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62506480">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As I read Wilson's work it is becoming clear that the supernatural moments in some of the plays act as the peak of the plot.  When it works really well, it will haunt a reader or a play goer for days on end.  Such is the case with this play. He is known for his plays FENCES, which has no supernatura...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31672832">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Haunting. Even the notes to the actors and settings are exquisite. Symbolic, yet gritty characters. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my favorite of all time.  I love Bynum (might be spelled wrong).  The story of finding your song is heard often but it is so authentic and soul-satisfying in this play.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[See my full review at birdlashes.livejournal.com! 2/5/08.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[read it in an hour. made me fall in love with wilson. ]]></body>
    
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