FENCES

A Play by August Wilson

June, 2010

Fences is the second major play of a poet turned playwright, August Wilson,  One of the most compelling storytellers to begin writing for the theatre in many years, he has taken the responsibility of telling the tale of the encounter of the released black slaves with a vigorous and ruthless growing America decade by decade.  Fences encompasses the 1950s and a black family trying to put down roots in the slag slippery hills of a middle American urban industrial city that one might correctly mistake for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  In Fences, August Wilson tells the story of four generations of black Americans and of how they have passed on a legacy of morals, mores, attitudes, and patterns through stories with and without music.