Notes on Two Trains Running for DCPL study group. 11102022
My starting queue is the opening epigram of the play, “This one’s for Judy.” I take that to be a veiled (perhaps not-so-veiled reference) to Wilson’s former wife, Judy Oliver, with whom he spent his life during the Minneapolis/St. Paul period (1981 – 1990). It was a nine year period in which he completed Jitney and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and wrote Jo…
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