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Kwame Kwei-Armah

chooses the play Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson

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Actor, Director and Writer
Plays include Elmina's Kitchen and Statement of Regret. Acted in Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ1's Casualty 1999 - 2004. Awarded OBE in 2012. Now Artistic Director of Centerstage, Baltimore.

Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson

Kwame Kwei-Armah chooses Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1984), a play by August Wilson (1945 - 2005) and the second installment of his decade-by-decade chronicle of the African-American experience, The Pittsburgh Cycle. Presented by Mark Lawson.

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