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Fences is a 1985 play by the American playwright August Wilson.Set in the 1950s, it is the sixth in Wilson's ten-part "Pittsburgh Cycle".Like all of the "Pittsburgh" plays, Fences explores the evolving African-American experience and examines race relations, among other themes.
August Wilson (né Frederick August Kittel Jr.; April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright. He has been referred to as the "theater's poet of Black America". [ 1 ] He is best known for a series of 10 plays, collectively called The Pittsburgh Cycle (or The Century Cycle ) , which chronicle the experiences and heritage of the ...
Fences is a 2016 American period drama film directed and co-produced by Denzel Washington from a screenplay by August Wilson, based on his 1985 play.It stars Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Jovan Adepo, Russell Hornsby, Mykelti Williamson, and Saniyya Sidney.
Released in 1985, “Fences” is Wilson’s sixth play in his ten-part “Pittsburgh Cycle,” which was told across decades to document the African American experience in the 20th Century.
He won Tonys for best actor in a play in 1969 for Edwin Sherin's The Great White Hope, and in 1987 for August Wilson's Fences. He most recently starred opposite Cicely Tyson in a revival of The ...
The Piano Lesson is a 1987 play by American playwright August Wilson.It is the fourth play in Wilson's The Pittsburgh Cycle.Wilson began writing this play by playing with the various answers regarding the possibility of "acquir[ing] a sense of self-worth by denying one's past". [1]
The play follows the duration of his stay, and how it affects Seth’s small community. The 1988 Broadway premiere created a major critical splash and a big showing at the Tony Awards.
Two Trains Running is a 1990 play by American playwright August Wilson, the seventh in his ten-part series The Pittsburgh Cycle. The play takes place in 1968 in the Hill District, an African-American neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It explores the social and psychological manifestations of changing attitudes toward race from the ...