Does your past define you? How much of what a person has been through determines who he is at the moment? Do certain things weigh more heavily than others?
1. In a Huntington Theatre newsletter article about their production of Gem of the Ocean, August Wilson said of Aunt Ester that “obviously, no one can live to be as old as Aunt Ester…As for the decision to put her on stage, I knew from the beginning that I didn’t want just this mystical presence […]