Black Mary, Ester’s housekeeper, who she is painstakingly preparing as her Soul cleansing protege, is Caesar Wilks’s sister. Solly has an unusual business of collecting Dog waste, which he called “ Pure,” used for leather cleaning. Sydney Charles (Black Mary) and Gary Houston (Rutherford Selig) Photo by Liz Lauren We met Eli, Aunt Ester’s caretaker of the house, and Solly Two Kings, a formerly enslaved person, and Eli’s comrade, who were Underground Railroad helpers for the Union Army. She owns a dwelling in the Pittsburgh Hill District at 1839 Wylie Avenue, allowing wayward people seeking peace and a clean soul to stay. Gem of the Ocean is set in 1904, where Aunt Ester, a character seen throughout many of Wilson’s plays, claiming to be 285-year-old, is the matriarch.
Williams (Solly Two Kings) Photo by Liz Lauren Lisa Gaye Dixon (Aunt Ester) and James A. Most of August Wilson’s plays were set in the Pittsburgh Hill District, with only Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom in 1927, Chicago. August Wilson, described as the theater’s Poet of Black America, is the playwright that Goodman Theatre brings to the stage in his first installment of a ten-play catalog known as The Pittsburgh Cycle explored 100 years of the African American experience Gem of the Ocean.
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