Powerhouse play!
A wonderful and powerful play by August Wilson as part of his trilogy (?) of plays depicting Afro American life during earlier decades. A MUST read!
This is a masterpiece. I will be looking for other plays/works from August Wilson immediately. Highly recommended!
Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be--to survive. For he has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black was to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. Buot now the 50s are yeilding to the to the new spirit of liberation in the 60s... a spirit that is changing the world Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can... a spirit that is making him a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never knew and to a wife and son he understands less and less...
Reading it made me uncomfortable for the main character, in a sympathetic way.
A play that evokes the complicated emotions of changing eras, the split of generational or general misunderstanding... recommended for people of any skin tone.
Reading it made me uncomfortable for the main character, in a sympathetic way.
A play that evokes the complicated emotions of changing eras, the split of generational or general misunderstanding... recommended for people of any skin tone.
Fence: a barrier. In baseball it marks the delineation between a hit, or out, and a score: a home run. As in sports, in the larger sense, it represents the barrier between being on the team and actually playing. The play represents a period in time during which barriers (fences) are being broken down. But supposed that you grew up surrounded with them? How would you react? Troy, the ex-ballplayer, is trying to build a fence; he wants his young son to help, rather than to become a part of the change.
