Scrapmettle actors read August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean on October 24, 2020 at 7 pm.

Set in the early 1900’s, on Aunt Esther’s 287th birthday, Citizen Barlow—a young man in spiritual turmoil— comes to Pittsburgh’s Hill District seeking asylum. Aunt Esther sets him off on a spiritual journey to find a city in the middle of the Atlantic.

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