The focus of Wilson's attention in Fences is Troy, a 53-year-old working-class head of household who struggles with providing for his family. Fences was first developed at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's 1983 National Playwrights Conference and premiered at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 1985. The play won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play. Like all of the "Pittsburgh" plays, Fences explores the evolving African-American experience and examines race relations, among other themes. Set in the 1950s, it is the sixth in Wilson's ten-part " Pittsburgh Cycle". A Negro baseball league player is now a garbageman his bitterness affects his loved onesġ957, in a backyard of a house in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvaniaįences is a 1985 play by American playwright August Wilson.
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