Two Trains Running
Two Trains Running is a 1990 play by American playwright August Wilson, the seventh in his ten-part series The Pittsburgh Cycle. The play takes place in 1968 in the Hill District, an African-American neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It explores the social and psychological manifestations of changing attitudes toward race from the perspective of its urban Black characters. The play premiered on Broadway in 1992 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
| Two Trains Running | |
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| Written by | August Wilson |
| Date premiered | 1990 |
| Place premiered | Yale Repertory Theatre New Haven, Connecticut |
| Original language | English |
| Series | The Pittsburgh Cycle |
| Subject | The uncertain future promised by the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s |
| Genre | Drama |
| Setting | the Hill District of Pittsburgh, 1969 |
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