Gem of the Ocean (Regional, Portland Center Stage - Main Stage, 2022) | Playbill

Gem of the Ocean

Regional
Drama


SYNOPSIS:

Pittsburgh, 1904: Amidst boiling racial tensions, Citizen Barlow arrives at the home of Aunt Ester, a 285-year-old healer, who helps him seek redemption from a mistake that’s cost another man his life. She sends Citizen on a powerful, mystical journey to the City of Bones in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean — where he must understand the past in order to forge his own future.

Gem of the Ocean is the first chronological work in August Wilson’s 10-play, Pulitzer Prize-winning Pittsburgh Cycle, dramatizing African American life in the 20th century.



Directed by Chip Miller

Featuring Bobby Bermea, WRICK Jones, Isaac Lamb, Treasure Lunan, Victor Mack, Henry Noble, Andrea Vernae

  • Running Time: Approximately 2 hrs and 30 mins, including one intermission
  • playwright: August Wilson