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The second installment in our 10-play series of dramatic readings tells the story of Pittsburgh boardinghouse owners Seth and Bertha Holly and the makeshift family of migrants who pass through during the Great Migration of the 1910s. Recorded live in The Greene Space at WNYC in 2013, the play was directed by Phylicia Rashad and features Taraji P. Henson in her Wilson debut.

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CAST LIST

SETH HOLLY..................Keith David

BERTHA HOLLY..............S. Epatha Merkerson

BYNUM.........................Roger Robinson

RUTHERFURD SELIG.......Raynor Scheine

JEREMY FURLOW...........Jason Dirden

HERALD LOOMIS...........John Douglas Thompson

MATTIE CAMPBELL.........January LaVoy

REUBEN MERCER...........Nile Bullock

MOLLY CUNNINGHAM.....Taraji P. Henson

MARTHA PENTECOST......Rosalyn Coleman

ZONIA LOOMIS.............Alexis Holt

Watch a video excerpt:

See behind-the-scenes photos here

S. Epatha Merkerson in August Wilson's 'Joe Turner's Come and Gone' recorded live in The Greene Space (Matthew Septimus)