Huntington Theatre guide to Seven Guitars: https://www.huntingtontheatre.org/August-Wilson-Monologue-Competition/AWMC-Plays/Seven-Guitars/ YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0Lvs-e_eIXYQzNGKFRhdwbLYZ1mz6hLK Session #1 References to seven: The seventh play written in the cycle. Seven characters. Seven non-existent guitars. Seven years of bad luck. Red Carter used to have seven women. Six angels at the cemetery carry Floyd’s spirit away (7). Floyd’s seven ways to go. Red Carter counts seven birds sitting on a fence. Contest between Floyd’s six strings and Hedley’s one (7). Six men killed after George Butler died (7). Seven characters we never see who figure prominently (Pearl Brown, Leroy, Elmore, Hedley’s dad, Louise’s ex, Mr. T. L. Hall, Ruby’s unborn baby). Finally, From Wilson’s “Note from the Playwright,” the seven characteristics of his mother worthy of art.
Random thoughts on Seven Guitars: Week #7
Random thoughts on Seven Guitars: Week #7
Random thoughts on Seven Guitars: Week #7
Huntington Theatre guide to Seven Guitars: https://www.huntingtontheatre.org/August-Wilson-Monologue-Competition/AWMC-Plays/Seven-Guitars/ YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0Lvs-e_eIXYQzNGKFRhdwbLYZ1mz6hLK Session #1 References to seven: The seventh play written in the cycle. Seven characters. Seven non-existent guitars. Seven years of bad luck. Red Carter used to have seven women. Six angels at the cemetery carry Floyd’s spirit away (7). Floyd’s seven ways to go. Red Carter counts seven birds sitting on a fence. Contest between Floyd’s six strings and Hedley’s one (7). Six men killed after George Butler died (7). Seven characters we never see who figure prominently (Pearl Brown, Leroy, Elmore, Hedley’s dad, Louise’s ex, Mr. T. L. Hall, Ruby’s unborn baby). Finally, From Wilson’s “Note from the Playwright,” the seven characteristics of his mother worthy of art.