Thursday, March 26, 2020

*POSTPONED* Fences
Redhouse
Ted Lange, director

Redhouse at City Center
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Fences is the sixth chapter in August Wilson's groundbreaking 10-play cycle of the African-American experience in the 20th century. The play depicts the life of Troy Maxson, a former Negro League baseball player, thwarted in his dreams of a Major League career, who struggles to provide for his family and break free from the boundaries imposed upon him. But in 1957, his son Cory, an emerging football star, sees the world through very different eyes, and his wife Rose yearns for an outlet for her love. With the intersection of old prejudices and changing opportunities, Fences is a powerful drama filled with passionate love and thundering rage, generous laughter and searing pain.