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Out of a welter of plot-lines involving six men based in a storefront jitney stop, it emerges that the central drama is that of the station boss, Becker, and his son, Booster, just released after 20 years in prison.
"Jitney" was first given a 1980 reading at the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis, which awarded Wilson a fellowship that made it possible for him to persevere as a playwright.
In April 1997, "Jitney" was restaged at the Crossroads Theatre in New Brunswick, N.J. Working with a new director, Walter Dallas, Wilson added a scene, pointed the dialogue and changed the time from 1971 to 1977.
The 2 1/2 hours that "Jitney" wraps itself around you are like a trip to inner-city Pittsburgh, sitting down in a run-down car station, and feeling the heartbeat of the people who have lived and breathed those streets, that life.
It's more of a slice of life, with the central conflicts surrounding the jitney station, soon to be destroyed thanks to urban renewal, and a man and his just-released-from-prison son ("I don't know what to think," he says about life on the outside.
Brian Anthony Wilson as Becker, who runs the jitney station and whose son has just come home after 20 years in prison, carries such a deep sadness in him that it can be painful to watch.
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