August Wilson’s Pulitzer-Winning Drama Fences
International City Theatre at the Long Beach Performing Arts Center (Long Beach, CA)
August Wilson was one of America’s most celebrated playwrights, and Fences was arguably his greatest work. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama — as well as Tony Awards for Best Play and, decades later, Best Revival of a Play — Fences is a powerful drama that tells the story of Troy Maxson. A former star of Negro League Baseball who now makes his living as a garbage man in 1957, Maxson is a man consumed with frustration concerning the color barrier that kept him from being a success in Major League Baseball. As he struggles to provide for his family, their relationships — infected by bitterness — suffer. A truly significant American play, the New York Post once hailed it as “one of the richest experiences I have ever had in the theatre.”
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