19:45, Tue 22nd – Sat 26th October 2024 at ADC Theatre
Michaelmas Week 2
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"I planted myself inside you and waited to bloom. And it didn't take me no eighteen years to find out the soil was hard and rocky and it wasn't never gonna bloom.”
August Wilson's critically acclaimed Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play Fences has often been described as one of the most moving and accurate portrayals of the black family. Meet Troy Maxson, a disillusioned sanitation worker who has bitterly moved on from the days of his youth where he used to play in the Negro Baseball League. Wilson explores the battle between ruthless pragmatism and hope dividing the Maxson family living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as Troy is willing to tear down the dreams of his wife Rose and son Cory who aspires to one day follow in his father's footsteps in search of sporting acclaim with hopes of becoming professional football player. There is no line Troy is unwilling to cross.