School of Fine and Performing Arts

Fences

Academic Year: 
2014-15
Date(s): 
Friday, September 18, 2015, 12 am
Location: 
Festival Playhouse

Fences is a 1983 play by 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. The play won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play.

NOTE:  THIS PRODUCTION CONTAINS ADULT LANGUAGE

 


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