Taylore Mahogany Scott s performance in Seven Guitars brings to life Vera Dotson, a woman whose story arose in August Wilson s creative consciousness and caused him to write a completely different play. Seven Guitars originally had an all-male cast. It s a tribute to Wilson s poetry, Scott says, that he so richly endowed Vera with the lived life of a Black woman bearing the burdens of love and loss.
Taylore Mahogany Scott s performance in Seven Guitars brings to life Vera Dotson, a woman whose story arose in August Wilson s creative consciousness and caused him to write a completely different play. Seven Guitars originally had an all-male cast. It s a tribute to Wilson s poetry, Scott says, that he so richly endowed Vera with the lived life of a Black woman bearing the burdens of love and loss.
James Dixon’s portrayal of Canewell in PassinArt’s forthcoming production of Seven Guitars, will be his third role with Oregon’s longest producing Black theater company. And it will be his second written by August Wilson.
PassinArt: A Theatre Company presents August Wilson’s Seven Guitars from Wilson’s 10-play Century Cycle, also known as The Pittsburgh Cycle, which explores the African American experience decade-by-decade in the 20th century.
PassinArt: A Theatre Company presents August Wilson’s Seven Guitars from Wilson’s 10-play Century Cycle, also known as The Pittsburgh Cycle, which explores the African American experience decade-by-decade in the 20th century.