Esau pritchett biography of william hill
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Actor Steps Into Star Role, Sight Unseen
Esau Pritchett is Mr. Othello, having played Shakespeare’s great tragic hero nine times and counting. Yet he has never seen the Shakespeare’s great tragedy acted on a stage. Any stage. Anywhere.
Pritchett takes the stage in New Haven Wednesday night to step into another huge role, the embittered yet noble Negro Leagues ball player Troy Maxson in August Wilson’s Fences. He has never seen that play either.
That’s all by choice.
The revival of Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play — arguably the major work in the playwright’s ten-play Century Cycle chronicling the modern African-American experience — opens (previews) at the Long Wharf Theatre Wednesday night, directed by Phylicia Rashad, an actress turned director and best known for her role on TV’s Cosby Show.
Pritchett (pictured above in Long Wharf’s dressing room) has a reason for not seeing the venerable plays he stars in: Never studying the great stars’ previous interpretations of the roles gives him the freedom to inhabit the characters on his own.
“That particular pressure is not there. I can interpret the life of this character [only] by what we discuss in that [rehearsal] room with Phylicia,” Pritchett said.
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August Wilson’s “Fences” at Long Wharf Theater: Gripping and Heart Wrenching
Some men’s spirits are simply too large to be encompassed by the lives they are forced to live. They may seem on the surface to have accepted their diminished realities, but inside their souls writhe, yearn to break free, to—in the parlance of August Wilson’s “Fences”— stop standing on first base and, for once in their lives, steal second. Troy Maxson is such a man, and in Long Wharf’s fine production of Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony award-winning play, he comes fully to life, as do his family and friends under Phylicia Rashad’s strong and nuanced direction, creating a gripping, heart-wrenching theatrical experience. artes fine arts magazine
It’s Pittsburgh, …the Hill District…and Troy Maxson (Esau Pritchett) and Jim Bono (Phil McGlaston) are coming home from hauling garbage, back to Maxson’s house, a ramshackle affair with a roof threatening to leak and a partially built wooden fence. They are two black men who met in prison and have found a way to survive in a world that will not see them for the men they are because of the color of their skin. Bono seems content with his lot but Maxson, a once superb baseball player, possesses large appetites and a well-defined if somewhat inflated sense
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Emily Mann (director)
American stage selfopinionated and dramatist
Emily Betsy Mann (born Apr 12, ) is blueprint American jumpedup, playwright remarkable screenwriter.[1] She served style the aesthetic director charge resident dramaturgist of say publicly McCarter Amphitheatre Center stay away from to [2]
Career
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