| Title | Fences |
| Author | August Wilson |
| Type | play |
| Year of Publication | 1950 |
| Language | English |
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| Rating | Click to rate this post! [Total: 1 Average: 5] |
Fences is a 1985 play by American playwright August Wilson. Set in the 1950s, it is the sixth of Wilson’s ten-part “Pittsburgh Cycle”. Like all “Pittsburgh” plays, Fences explores the evolution of the African-American experience and examines race relations, among other themes. The play won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play. Fences were first developed at the 1983 Eugene O’Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference and opened at the Yale Repertory Theater in 1985.
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Summary
Troy Maxson is a strong man, a tough man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has lived through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that can crush a man, body, and soul. But the 1950s are giving way to the new liberation spirit of the 1960s, a world-changing spirit that Troy Maxson has learned to deal with in the only way he can, a spirit that is turning him into a strange, angry and scared, in a world he never knew and a wife and son he understands less and less. This is a modern classic, a book dealing with the impossibly difficult issues of race in America, set during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and ’60s.
Review
From legendary playwright August Wilson comes the powerful and impactful dramatic bestseller that garnered him critical acclaim, including the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize.
About The Author
August Wilson was a major American playwright whose work has been consistently acclaimed as among the finest of American theater. His first play, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for best new play of 1984-85. His second play, Fences, won numerous awards for best play of the year, in 1987, including the Tony Award, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, his third play, was voted best play of 1987-1988 by the New York Drama Critics’ Circle. In 1990, Wilson was awarded his second Pulitzer Prize for The Piano Lesson. He died in 2005.
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