03-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com

August Wilson's Play Two Trains Running Is All About Money

The saddest of happy endings in black American art.by Charles MudedeMoney drives us crazy. That is the message of Two Trains Running, the seventh play in August Wilson's series The Pittsburgh Cycle. The characters can't stop thinking about it.The main character, Memphis, the owner of the restaurant in which the play is set, is very clear about how much he paid for the building he owns and what, according to the market, he should get if he sold the property. The young ex-con who shows up at the r
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