![]() He is enlisted to help construct a wall, and eventually journeys to The City of Bones.Ī friend of Aunt Ester. She is a recurring character in several of Wilson's plays of the Pittsburgh Cycle.Ī young man from Alabama who comes to the house to be cleansed by Ester. She entertains the romantic ambitions of Solly. She claims to be 285 years old and acts as the benevolent, if disciplinarian, ruler of the household. Characters Aunt Ester TylerĪ former slave and a "soul-cleanser", who is the head of 1839 Wylie Avenue. Aunt Ester is not too old to practice healing she guides him on a soaring, lyrical journey of spiritual awakening to the City of Bones. ![]() Aunt Ester, the drama's 285-year-old fiery matriarch, welcomes into her home Solly Two Kings, who was born into slavery and scouted for the Union Army, and Citizen Barlow, a young man from Alabama searching for a new life and in search of redemption. The play is set in 1904 at 1839 Wylie Avenue in Pittsburgh's Hill District. ![]()
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