Lisa Gaye Dixon as Aunt Ester and James A. Williams), a former conductor on the Underground Railroad, aging white go-fer Rutherford Selig (Gary Houston), and troubled young everyman Citizen Barlow (Sharif Atkins). At Ester’s house, the trio interact with Eli’s friend and Ester’s flirt Solly Two Kings (James A. Smith, reprising this role from the 2015 Court Theatre production). Gem of the Ocean was written in 2003 and set in 1904 in the working class Hill District, where 285-year-old Ester Tyler (Lisa Gaye Dixon) lives with her helper and protegee Black Mary (Sydney Charles) and Eli (A.C. Playwright August Wilson’s body of work chronicled the history of Black lives and the impact of systemic racism in his Century Cycle, ten plays set in his hometown of Pittsburgh during each decade of the 20th century. Some jurisdictions and politicians are busily banning books and curriculums that even mention America’s original sin of slavery. Black history is continuously under attack, even during Black History Month.
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