“Gem of the Ocean”: A Mighty Cruise to African Epiphany—at TheatreWorks
August Wilson’s Masterpiece Blesses African Ancestors by Barry David Horwitz In “Gem of the Ocean,” Aunt Ester (superb Greta Oglesby), a 285-year-old seer and healer, connects us to our history because Black history is American history. We must study it because our country was not founded on slaves but on enslaved Africans. We teach…