The seventh play in August Wilson's 10-play Century Cycle chronicling, decade by decade, the history of the African American experience in the 20th century. Olivier Award for Best New Play Jitney is set in the 1970s in Pittsburgh's Hill District, about a firm of mini-cab drivers who serve black neighbourhoods. 'No one except perhaps Eugene O'Neill or Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theatre' - John Lahr
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The seventh play in August Wilson's 10-play Century Cycle chronicling, decade by decade, the history of the African American experience in the 20th century. Olivier Award for Best New Play Jitney is set in the 1970s in Pittsburgh's Hill District, about a firm of mini-cab drivers who serve black neighbourhoods. 'No one except perhaps Eugene O'Neill or Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theatre' - John Lahr
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