Reviews for August Wilson Century Cycle

The average rating for August Wilson Century Cycle based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-12-25 00:00:00 Thomas Bradach These are ten of the best plays you'll ever read. August Wilson has made perhaps the greatest contribution to American theatre in its entire history. His work has O'Neill's scope and dignity, Williams's poetic phrasing, Miller's scenes of intense conflict, and Albee's invocation of ritual while also being completely unique in style from any other playwright. No other playwright can write dialogue that flows this naturally. Even all the long monologues seem appropriate to the conversation rather than formal convention. I don't think we'll get a body of work this extraordinary for at least another hundred years and maybe never. August Wilson should be celebrated every day. Read these plays.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-12-17 00:00:00 George Beaureux A great cycle that I spent a year reading. I wish I read them back to back instead of spreading them out through the year. I also wish I read these in a class. I don't know if it would have been a literature, theater or African American Studies class (probably all three), but it would have been a hell of a class. Now that I have read them all I think of the plays altogether as a loose epic and not an anthology.