Fences (play)

Fences
Written by	August Wilson
Characters	Troy Maxson Rose Maxson Cory Maxson Jim Bono Gabriel Maxson Lyons Maxson Raynell Maxson
Date premiered	1985
Place premiered	Eugene O'Neill Theater Center Waterford, Connecticut
Original language	English
Series	The Pittsburgh Cycle
Subject	A Negro baseball league player is now a garbageman; his bitterness affects his loved ones
Genre	Drama, Fiction
Setting	1957, in a backyard of a house in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Fences is a 1985 play by the 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. Fences was first developed at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's 1983 National Playwrights Conference and premiered at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 1985.