![]() ![]() A story of dreams lost, racism, family struggles, infidelity, work, marriage, violence, mental illness and the suffering of war veterans, Fences is a “meaty, timely” story that holds a lot of parallels to contemporary American society, said Ron OJ Parson, director of Court Theatre’s production. The son of a southern sharecropper, Troy moved north to Pittsburgh during the Great Migration, but never really found the land of opportunity he imagined. Troy, a former Negro League baseball player, too old to play by the time the major leagues finally integrated, is a bitter garbage collector. The story is set during the season Hank Aaron led the Milwaukee Braves to the World Series. Fences is his treatise on being black in the 1950s.īeginning in 1957, between the Korean and Vietnam wars, Fences ends in 1965, but the themes of the play place it squarely in a pre-civil-rights era, pre-Vietnam War society. It is part of an entire cycle of plays that Wilson penned conveying the African-American experience in the United States in each decade of the 20th century. 12, was Wilson’s second play to go to Broadway, and it won him the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Just three months after acclaimed playwright August Wilson’s death, Court Theatre is honoring his life and contributions to the American literary canon by putting on a production of one of his most celebrated works.įences, which opens Thursday, Jan. Smith will appear in August Wilson’s Fences at Court Theatre, during its run from Thursday, Jan. Anthony Flemming III, Jaqueline Williams and A.C. ![]()
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