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Jitney
Jitney is a play by August Wilson set in an unlicensed taxi station in Pittsburgh's Hill District during the 1970s. Its drivers confront unstable work, strained family relationships, neighborhood redevelopment, and the threatened demolition of the station, while the play examines dignity and community under economic pressure. Written in an early form in 1979 and later revised, it is part of Wilson...
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Arcadia
At an English country house, Tom Stoppard's Arcadia alternates between events beginning in 1809 and inquiries by present-day scholars. The 1993 play gradually connects a gifted student and her tutor with changes to the estate's grounds and a disputed episode in literary history. Audiences see evidence that the modern investigators lack, allowing comedy to develop from confident interpretations of...
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