The legacy of August Wilson was that he was the first African
American that did a complete cycle but the other that have tried didn’t completely
finish them but he did. His legacy reveal a larger message about how the race
and power and language can affect any part in a person’s life. So in the spirt of
august Wilson he didn’t reach the success without some down falls but even the
facts that of him dropping out of high was a down fall because it never stopped
him. He wasn’t just impacting the theater he impacted a lot of people in his tracks
even his last wife before he passed away Judy Oliver says “August was very
excited about it. I knew what he wanted in terms of casting and other things
and being involved was a gift to me. It helped me with my grieving.”(Berson)
but the fact that she was being involved about her late husband work and to
this day she still too continues his work because she was involved of the
process “I love his plays. And they will always bring him back to me” (Berson).
His legacy reveal a larger message because when he was out in about in the streets
he knew and understood the struggles of how African Americans were being
treated and what better way of writing
then write about something that was close to heart and that is what he did. But
he was inspired by Ed Bullins because it was his first time he saw a black character
of that type for example “ what they would
call in today’s language the underclass present onstage." (Kachka)
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ReplyDeleteI agree with what you talked about. Wilson's plays made such an impact especially in Pittsburgh. Because of his plays it put Pittsburgh on the maps and to give back to Wilson the people in Pittsburgh created the August Wilson Center that showed the history of African American culture; "As long as people are reading, they will be reading about Pittsburgh, and that's what August Wilson did for us," He said. "We owe him" (Schackner).
ReplyDeleteI like how you incorporated quotes in your post. I like how you talked about his legacy and the impact of that. :)
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