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URL:https://coolcleveland.com/events/touring-company-presents-two-performa
 nces-of-august-wilsons-jitney-in-italian/
SUMMARY:Touring Company Presents Two Performances of August Wilson's "Jitne
 y"—in Italian
DESCRIPTION:\nTue 5/5 &amp\; Wed 5/6 @ 7PM\nPittsburgh playwright August Wi
 lson (1945-2005) was one of the towering greats of American theater. His c
 rowning achievement was his so-called Pittsburgh cycle\, ten plays each se
 t in a different decade of the 20th century that depicted the lives of ord
 inary people struggling to survive in Pittsburgh’s Black community. (One
  play is anomalously set in Chicago.) Jitney\, set in the 1970s\, is the e
 ighth play in the cycle. It follows the lives of group of men who run an u
 nderground “jitney” taxi service (since licensed cabs wouldn’t go to
  “those neighborhoods”) and their friends and family\, and the challen
 ges they face from alcoholism to gambling\, from returning from Vietnam to
  returning from prison to dealing with the eviction of the business from i
 ts building to a tragedy that turns lives around. “Car service!”\nJitn
 ey\, like all of Wilson’s plays\, is often performed\, but now Cleveland
 -based Powerful Long Ladder is presenting (for just two nights) an unusual
  take on the play:  Italy's Sardegna Teatro and La Piccionaia's Italian l
 anguage production\, directed by Renzo Carbonera in Italian with an all Bl
 ack-Italian cast. There are projected English supertitles.\nCleveland is t
 he second stop as the company tours the U.S. It will be presented at the T
 reelawn in the Waterloo Arts District on Tuesday May 5 and Wednesday May 6
 . Go here for tickets.\npowerfullongladder.com\n[mappress mapid="4762"]
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