Jitney

August Wilson · 1982 CE · Play · Modern / American · Contemporary

Unlicensed cabs work out of a storefront in Pittsburgh's Hill District in 1977, taking the calls no licensed company will answer, while the city prepares to board up the block. Becker keeps the phone and the peace among his drivers until his son Booster comes back from twenty years in prison. The first of the ten Wilson wrote for his century cycle, and the last he was still revising.

Open Jitney in the archive — filters, lineage graph and full facet browsing.

Lineage

• ↓ Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  August Wilson · 1984 CE · Play — companion to this

Attributes

Closest analogues

• Fences
  August Wilson · 1985 CE · Play

  62% · 15 shared
  PlayTragedyDuty & HonorBetrayalRace & IdentityContemporaryEverymanDialogueTragic ReversalThe Thresholdvs Personvs SocietyRealistTragicModern / American
• "Master Harold"...and the Boys
  Athol Fugard · 1982 CE · Play

  59% · 14 shared
  PlayPoliticalTragedyBetrayalRace & IdentityContemporaryEverymanMentorDialogueTragic ReversalThe Thresholdvs SocietyRealistTragic
• Houseboy
  Ferdinand Oyono · 1956 CE · Novel

  59% · 13 shared
  PoliticalTragedyClass & InequalityBetrayalRace & IdentityContemporaryEverymanEpisodicThe Housevs Personvs SocietyRealistTragic
• Mulatto
  Langston Hughes · 1935 CE · Play

  53% · 13 shared
  PlayTragedyBetrayalRace & IdentityRebel / OutlawTragic ReversalThe HouseThe Thresholdvs Personvs SocietyRealistTragicModern / American
• The Black Hermit
  Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o · 1963 CE · Play

  52% · 13 shared
  PlayPoliticalTragedyDuty & HonorContemporaryEverymanMentorRebel / OutlawThe HouseThe Thresholdvs SocietyRealistTragic
• All My Sons
  Arthur Miller · 1947 CE · Play

  52% · 13 shared
  PlayPoliticalTragedyDuty & HonorBetrayalContemporaryEverymanTragic ReversalThe Housevs SocietyRealistTragicModern / American