Seven Guitars is a 1995 play by August Wilson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright. It focuses on seven African American characters in the year 1948. The play begins and ends after the funeral of one of the main characters, showing events leading to the funeral in flashbacks. Seven Guitars represents the 1940s entry in Wilson's "Pittsburgh Cycle", a decade-by-decade anthology of African-American life in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania during the 20th century; Wilson would revisit the stories of some of these characters in King Hedley II, set in the 1980s.
A song Floyd "Schoolboy" Barton recorded, called "That's All Right", in the prior year has become a radio hit. Record executives have asked him to return to Chicago to record more albums. Since the recording of the first album, Floyd has squandered the flat fee he received for recording, left his girlfriend (Vera) for another woman, was then left by the other woman, pawned his guitar, and spent ninety days in jail after being...
