The trip is fully funded and participants compete for scholarship funds. Windbush-Soules will take that monologue to New York City in May for the National August Wilson Monologue Competition, where finalists from across the country will have the opportunity to perform in front of a celebrity panel and participate in workshops with theater professionals. “You get one of those fast balls on the outside corner of the plate, where you can get the meat of the bat on it, and pow! Good God, you could kiss it goodbye. “Death ain’t nothing but a fast ball on the outside corner of the plate, and you know what I would do with that,” the monologue reads.
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In the scene he performed, the play’s main character, Troy Maxson, portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie version, tells an epic story about his struggle with death-and compares it to a baseball game. He knew a monologue from Wilson’s best-known play, “Fences,” would be popular but it still felt right. Windbush-Soules, a senior at the Buffalo Academy of Visual and Performing Arts, says he changed his monologue three days before the competition. “ writing about the African American struggle is what I connected with.” “You really find out how good something is when you look back on it, and something that is based on the truth-and a lot of times when you tell the truth-it transcends the generations,” said Myles Windbush-Soules, who placed first in the Feb.
And while Wilson is known for chronicling the Black experience of the 20th Century, his work still resonates today.
This marks the third year Buffalo has hosted a regional August Wilson Monologue Competition during Black History Month. Buffalo high school students brought to life the words of a playwright who was described in his obituary as “theater’s poet of Black America” earlier this month.
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