How I Learned What I Learned

[Dave (imported)]

How I Learned What I Learned, a one man play (monologue from the author) by August Wilson.

This was today's theater production. If any of you get the chance -- go see it.

August Wilson is a playwright, one of America's brilliant stars of the stage, (though he always says he is a poet) and he talks about his life.

His ten play cycle on America is wonderful. So if your theater has a production of any play by August Wilson - go see it.

Here is a clip of the production: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixtGRZoPTFw

and I will add that Sy Morocco has figured out how to read when he hasn't learned. You have to watch the clip to understand.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/25/theat ... .html?_r=0

At one point, Wilson recalls the numinous experience of hearing John Coltrane play at a local club. “It remains one of the most remarkable moments of my life,” Mr. Santiago-Hudson says, a shimmer of awe in his voice. Standing with a couple of hundred men and women outside the bar — they couldn’t afford to go inside but were drawn to the passionate cry of the music — Wilson saw how people could be “stunned into silence by the power of art” and divine in it “the power of possibility, of human life.” That’s a fine description of the effect Wilson’s own plays would have in the decades to come, as his art reached maturity and enthralled audiences across the country and throughout the world.