The major theme is idenity the other two themes are migration and racial discrimination

In "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" by August Wilson, the rising action occurs as the character Herald Loomis arrives at Seth and Bertha's boarding house searching for his wife. As Loomis interacts with the other residents and begins to confront his past and identity, tensions rise and the central conflicts of the play start to unfold.

He is a man that kid napped slaves that were freed.Then he'd force them into labor in his chain gang for many years.Turner is supposed to represent a white racist man from the evil of the south.

Like in the song Joe Turner's Come and Gone

(a classic jazz song by August Wilson)

* the first and 2nd lines are one long line of bars with words and music.They are always the same * then a 3rd line of 4-bars to rhyme with the first and second lines

the song goes like this:

# They tell me Joe Turner's come and gone(repeat) 3. He left me here to sing this song

# He came here with forty links of chain(repeat) 3. He left me here to sing this song

# Joe Turner, he took my man away(repeat) 3. He left me here to sing this song

Big Joe Turner's birth name is Turner, Joseph Vernon.

The 2009 Best Lighting Design of a Play Tony went to Brian MacDevitt. He received the award for his lighting design of the revival of Joe Turner's Come and Gone.