Play· 1985· Drama

Fences

by August Wilson

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Troy Maxson is a former Negro league baseball star shut out of the major leagues by segregation, and his bitterness drives the play.

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Fences

August Wilson's play follows Troy Maxson, a former Negro league baseball player working as a garbage collector in 1950s Pittsburgh, and his strained relationships with his wife and son. It is the sixth play of Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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