August Wilson’s monumental Century Cycle is a collection of 10 dramas chronicling the Black experience in America, one set during each decade of the 20th century.

“King Hedley II,” number nine in the series, is a powerful, gritty and gripping play set in the 1980s about an ex-convict trying to rebuild himself and his community all while the ghosts of the past haunt him.

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