Fences

Drama by August Wilson; Samuel French, Inc.
Director: Paula Day Johns
Playdates: July 13-15, 19-22, 26-28, 2007

Winner of every major award, including Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, New York Drama Critics, Tony and Pulitzer Prizes, this sensational drama starred James Earl Jones as Troy Maxson, a former star of the Negro baseball leagues who is working as a garbage man in 1957. Maxson sees the world as composed mostly of fences which enclose him. He is very bitter that he was excluded from major league baseball during his prime and was too old to play when the sport finally was integrated. Maxson's son wants a chance at professional sports, but Maxson refuses to let him try his luck. Troy Maxson does not see that not all the fences in his life are societal and that he is fencing in his family. A true American classic and a must see for theatre lovers!

"One of the great characters in American drama." N.Y. Post.

"One of the richest experiences I have ever had in the theatre. I wasn't just moved. I was transfixed." N.Y. Post.

"A blockbuster and a major American play." N.Y. Daily News.

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