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Say It Aint So, Joe TurnerThe M Ensemble tackles another challenging play.By NATALIE P. MCNEALPublished on December 04, 2008 at 3:02amFew artists have exposed the scars of slavery and revealed the hopes of African-Americans living in Northern cities quite like August Wilson. Now South Floridians can get a front seat to one of the playwrights works. The M Ensemble, the only surviving black theater troupe in Florida, is tackling one of his lesser-known but more complex pieces, Joe Turner's Come and Gone. The play, set in a boarding house in 1911, is part of Wilsons Pittsburgh Chronicles, a series of 10 works that recount black life in the industrial city.
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