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The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
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Fences (1987), a play by August
Wilson. [46th St. Theatre, 526 perf.; Pulitzer Prize, Tony, NYDCC Awards.] Troy Maxson ( James Earl
Jones), once a promising baseball player in the Negro leagues, is stuck in the 1950s driving a garbage truck in Philadelphia. He is bitter because even his athletic abilities have not allowed him to rise in a white world. Troy builds a fence around his house—not only to keep the white world at a distance but also to keep away Death, with whom he insists he has wrestled and won. When his high‐school‐age son Cory ( Courtney B. Vance) shows possibilities as a football star and is wooed by college scholarships, Troy belittles the offers and blocks Cory's chances for success. Troy's resilient wife, Rose ( Mary
Alice), who is raising Troy's illegitimate baby after his mistress dies in childbirth, tries to comfort Cory. Only after Troy is dead and Cory returns home from the Marines can the two of them begin to reconcile their feelings for the strict, tormented Troy. Lloyd
Richards directed the engrossing drama that allowed Jones and Alice to give towering performances; all three won
Tony Awards.
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sunk fence. Ha-ha .
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