Radio Golf

Synopsis

Set in the United States, Radio Golf is the last in Wilson's cycle of ten plays that examines the African-American experience in the 20th Century. Each play tackles a decade and Radio Golf, the final play in the cycle, focuses on the 1990’s.

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7 October 2008

Barack Obama could become the first black president in American history, and suddenly, race and politics are under the microscope. It’s a case of overcoming prejudice and making history, but it’s also a case of one man versus another man in yet another election. Race just shouldn’t come into it. Should it?

Radio Golf, the late August Wilson’s intelligently written play, the last in his series of ten plays examining the African-American experience in each decade of the 20th century, looks at the 1990's and some of the issues involved when a black man runs for office, but offers some quite different perspectives on what’s really involved in climbing the political ladder.

Set in Pittsburgh, the action takes place on a single set. Libby Watson’s cleverly designed, rundown, half-constructed office in ‘the Hills’ where Harmond Wicks has set up his real estate office, and from which he intends to launch his redevelopment plans, bringing Starbucks and Whol...

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fred - 18 October 2008:

Despite the excellent acting, this play is enormously disappointing. I did not find a single character credible in part because Wilson treats them as symbolic rather than real. The plot is uninteresting and the dramativ tension is tepid. In fact, it all seems like a first draft rather than a finished play....

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