Modern Theatre Guides: August Wilson's Fences (Hardcover)

from ctkjs

A story about wanting more for others and your own self at the same time. It's about the barriers we put up in our lives. Wilson weaves words together to build these powerfully beautiful and heartbreaking monologues you really can't help getting chills when reading. Well, I couldn't at least.

from ncgraham

I read this for a drama class last semester, and knew next to nothing about it before I picked it up and read it for myself. In contrast, I had some connection to all the other plays we read in that class-I've loved Shakespeare since I was a child, and so had no qualms with making the romp throug...

from gbjefferso

Drama that takes place in 1957 focusing on the main character, Tony, a strong hard working black man, who is drowning in anger by the racism that has kept him in his perception from meeting his dreams. Not a fast-moving play but the concepts of racism, family values and sense of survival are so s...

from mirlyarley

Pulitzer prize winner for this play bout the black experience in the 1950's of an Eastern industrial city

from kant1066

Published in 1983, this is the sixth play of August Wilson's "Pittsburgh Cycle," and by far the best known, winning the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. All the plays in the cycle take up various aspects of the American-American experience during the first part of the twentieth century. "Fences," a...