Two Trains Running

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

Two Trains Running (1992), a play by August Wilson. [Walter Kerr Theatre, 160 perf.; NYDCC Award.] At a dingy coffee shop in Pittsburgh in 1969, the African‐American regulars talk about two significant events planned for the same day: the funeral of a prominent local preacher and a protest rally spurred by the recent assassination of Malcolm X. Yet the patrons are more involved in their own everyday problems and concerns: the neighborhood's gentrification, the return of an ex‐con ( Larry Fishburne) who woos the bitter waitress Risa ( Cynthia Martells), and the local eccentric Hambone ( Sullivan Walker) who keeps ranting about a ham he was once promised but never received. Lloyd Richards directed the strong ensemble cast (Fishburne won the Tony), and the script was deemed “the most comic of the Wilson saga so far . . . [his] most delicate and mature work.”

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