Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

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play stage work

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone is a 1984 play by August Wilson that explores African American identity, migration, and spiritual searching in a Pittsburgh boardinghouse in 1911.

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Label	Occurrences
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone canonical	6
Joe Turner's Come and Gone	2
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (2009 Broadway revival)	1
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (2009 revival)	1
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Broadway revival, 2009)	1
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone – 1910s	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	play ⓘ stage work ⓘ
author	August Wilson ⓘ
chronologicalPositionInPittsburghCycle	set in the 1910s ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
creator	August Wilson ⓘ
depicts	effects of forced labor on African Americans ⓘ religious and spiritual traditions of African Americans ⓘ search for community ⓘ
firstPerformanceYear	1984 ⓘ
genre	African-American theatre ⓘ drama ⓘ
hasCharacter	Bertha Holly ⓘ Bynum Walker ⓘ Herald Loomis ⓘ Jeremy Furlow ⓘ Martha Loomis ⓘ Mattie Campbell ⓘ Molly Cunningham ⓘ Reuben Scott ⓘ Rutherford Selig ⓘ Seth Holly ⓘ Zonia Loomis ⓘ
hasPart	Act I ⓘ Act II ⓘ
hasTheme	displacement ⓘ freedom ⓘ memory and trauma ⓘ reconnection with African heritage ⓘ
hasTitleCharacterReference	Joe Turner ⓘ
inNarrativeRefersTo	Joe Turner’s chain gangs ⓘ
inspiredBy	experiences of African Americans during Jim Crow era ⓘ
locationOfFictionalEvent	Pittsburgh boardinghouse ⓘ
mainSubject	African American history ⓘ African American identity ⓘ Great Migration of African Americans out of the region ⓘ surface form: Great Migration spiritual searching ⓘ
originalLanguage	English ⓘ
partOf	20th-century American plays ⓘ African-American literature ⓘ Pittsburgh Cycle ⓘ
periodDepicted	early 20th century ⓘ
publicationYear	1984 ⓘ
series	Century Cycle ⓘ
settingPlace	Pennsylvania ⓘ Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ⓘ surface form: Pittsburgh United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
settingTime	1911 ⓘ
timeInNarrativeFollows	events of slavery and Reconstruction ⓘ

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Andre Holland → notableWork → Joe Turner’s Come and Gone ⓘ

August Wilson → notableWork → Joe Turner’s Come and Gone ⓘ

this entity surface form: Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Brian MacDevitt → notableWork → Joe Turner’s Come and Gone ⓘ

this entity surface form: Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Lincoln Center Theater → producedWork → Joe Turner’s Come and Gone ⓘ

this entity surface form: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (2009 revival)

Bartlett Sher → notableWork → Joe Turner’s Come and Gone ⓘ

this entity surface form: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (2009 Broadway revival)

Bartlett Sher → directed → Joe Turner’s Come and Gone ⓘ

this entity surface form: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Broadway revival, 2009)

André Holland → notableWork → Joe Turner’s Come and Gone ⓘ

André Holland → participatedIn → Joe Turner’s Come and Gone ⓘ

Gem of the Ocean → relatedWork → Joe Turner’s Come and Gone ⓘ

The Pittsburgh Cycle → hasPart → Joe Turner’s Come and Gone ⓘ

Pittsburgh Cycle → hasPart → Joe Turner’s Come and Gone ⓘ

Pittsburgh Cycle → playDecadeDepicted → Joe Turner’s Come and Gone ⓘ

this entity surface form: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone – 1910s