![]() Even excerpted and without much context, scenes from “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “The Piano Lesson,” “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” and “Two Trains Running” among others, are terrifically exciting and moving and musical.Ī metaphysical realist who started his writing life as a poet, Wilson’s plays came out of the place where the voices he heard around him merged with the voices he heard in his head. August Wilson, a great American writer of great American plays, and a great African American writer of great African American plays, gets the “American Masters” treatment in “The Ground on Which I Stand,” an edition of the series “American Masters,” premiering Friday on PBS.ĭirected by Sam Pollard (longtime Spike Lee editor, producer of not literally innumerable but impressively many TV documentaries), it’s the usual mix of talking heads, including colleagues, scholars friends and relations, and archival clips, including interviews with Wilson, who died at 60 in 2005, and performances of his plays on stage, and on film.īut it has an unusual power, for being so full of powerful language, powerful feelings and powerful ideas.
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