"Two Trains Running" presented by Jubilee Theatre

TWO TRAINS RUNNING
play program

On a warm and rainy Spring afternoon, The Travelling Toe and Dear Friend attended the Saturday matinee performance of "Two Trains Running". The production was showing at the Jubilee Theatre in downtown Fort Worth.

The play was written by August Wilson. If you saw the movie "Fences" with Denzel Washington and Viola Davis, then you would be familiar with the playwright as it is also one of August's plays, made into a movie. All of his plays are set in working class areas of Pittsburg.

August Wilson
playwright

This play takes place in 1969 in the Hill District of Pittsburgh.  When the lights go up, the playgoer is taken to the neighborhood diner of Memphis Lee. Things are changing in the neighborhood and the city is renovating the area. They are buying up properties around Lee's diner.  But he is insistent he has a bottom line number that the city must meet before he will sell his property. There are also other everyday events that are re-hashed and discussed along with coffee, beans and cornbread and pie at the diner.

This is a must see play.  We totally enjoyed it and all the actors were amazing. The set designer, Bryan Wofford did an exceptional job on creating a working diner. It seemed as if you could get out of your seat, walk right down to the stage, sit down and order pie and coffee and feel right at home.

CAST:


William "Bill Earl Ray                            Memphis

Sam Henderson                                   Sam

Alonzo Waller                                       Holloway

Shanidrea Evans                                  Risa

Marcus Mauldin                                    Wolf

Oris Phillips, Jr                                     West

Jarrett Goer                                          Hambone

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