Gem of the Ocean August 21, 2007

August Wilson's ten-play cycle is one of the most important theatrical achievements of our time. It is set in Pittsburgh in 1904. Aunt Ester is the 285-year-old healer and keeper of ancestral mysteries. Citizen Barlow, a desperate wanderer needs her help to cleanse his tarnished soul. Ester launches him upon a harrowing spiritual passage aboard the legendary slave ship, !Gem of the Ocean.' Through myth and memory, he journeys down to the !City of Bones,' where freedom of the spirit awaits.