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Fences (The Century Cycle, #6)

August Wilson,

Lloyd Richards (Introduction)

Start date: March 1, 2013

Finish date: May 31, 2013

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Nov 05, 2023 Connie G rated it it was amazing

Shelves: play, classic, august-wilson-century-cycle, african-american-experience, relationships

"Fences" is the August Wilson play set in the 1950s in his ten-part "Century Cycle" about the experiences of African-Americans. The main character is Troy, an illiterate but very hard working trash collector in Pittsburgh. Troy was an excellent baseball player when he was younger, but he never realized his dream of making it to Major League Baseball because he was too old when he was released after a fifteen-year prison sentence. Racial discrimination was also prevalent in MLB, although the colo ...more

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Mar 04, 2013 Joanna rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2013-read, rws-2013-spring

I really want to see this play performed. Reading the play was good, but I was having trouble picturing the staging and movements that would breathe life into the play. If I read more plays, this would probably come more naturally. In any case, the characters felt very real to me and the emotions in the play were very raw. I read "Death of a Salesman" last year and found the parallels between that play and this one quite interesting. Both addressed the effort by a breadwinner to meet his respons ...more

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