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Title: Fences by August Wilson, Lloyd Richards ISBN: 0-452-26401-4 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: March, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.89 (64 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Fences
Comment: "Fences", by August Wilson, is a wonderful play full of reality, comedy, which has a sad ending. If you read this play while in class or with friends you will enjoy it. The author is basing the story on Troy Maxson and his family to basically show how black families in the 60s compare to black families now. In this two-act play, Troy Maxson is the husband of Rose, and the father of two young men by the name of Lyons and Cory. He also has a brother name Gabriel and a best friend name Bono. The main character Troy is basically the man of the house, everyone that lives under hes roof goes by his rules and obeys him. When Troy comes home, he expects dinner cooked and ready to eat. Does he get what he wants? Well that's why you should read this book. In the beginning of the play, their lifestyle was kind of boring. As you get further into the play, it gets interesting. The Maxson family basically ends up in a struggle trying to keep the family together. The message that I get from this story is that you can't trust everbody, no matter how long you've known them. I think one of the things that makes this play nice is how it relates to African-American families. It gives you an actual idea of what black families have to go through, and what is spoken in their homes. If you are one of those curious people who would like to know how most African-Americans live, you should read this book. If you are the type of person who doesn't really like to read, you should just try it and you just might enjoy it like I did.
Rating: 3
Summary: Fences, a Review by Phillip J.
Comment: Fences, by August Wilson, is a drama about what black people were going through during the sixties. This play contains two acts about the life of Troy Maxson, a middle-aged African American who is trying to raise his son, keep his family together, and deal with an ever changing society. One of Troy's problems is that Troy's son, Cory, wants to play football and get a college scholarship. Troy, on the other hand, continues thinking that the white person wouldn't truly allow his son to play. In addition Cory has a job at a grocery store called the A&P and his job interferes with football. Troy deals with this problem by making Cory drop football for his job because Troy wants Cory to have some resposibility. Cory dosen't like Troy for that, but Troy is one of those 'You live under my roof, you live by my rules and when I ask you to jump you say how high!' type of dad. During this play one gets an understanding of the social classes. The white garbage men get to drive the truck while the colored do the lifting; the white person gets all meat in his soup, while the black person gets nothing but vegetables in restaurants. This play was like a documentary of a sixties black family. I think the best way to relate to the people of this play is to act out the play in one's class or at home. I thought is was a good play that seemed realistic and I would recommend this "script," although as a warning, I caution that few people in my class thought it was boring.
Rating: 4
Summary: Real Characters in a Real Situation
Comment: From the opening scene we as audience members are dropped whole into the world of the characters in August Wilson's classic play. The dialect of the characters, the hints of jargon, and the references that aren't explained but simply ARE allow us to be immersed in his setting. This back porch, with its visible foibles (exposed icebox, half-built fence) make Troy Maxson, his family, and his friends into new beings that become larger than their own lives--and very like our own lives.
There is nothing in this play we don't all have to face from day to day. Work, marriage, family disputes, mental illness, adultery, violence, and more events populate this play as surely as the characters do. Yet the clear, Sophoclean way they are addressed makes them matter to us in an immediate, powerful way.
The play is broken up into two acts, comprising eleven scenes. The first ten take place over a span of a few months, while the final provides an epilogue some years later. Some modern theatre purists will balk at this many divisions, and yet the way Wilson makes them pop will let an audience that loves theatre to both enjoy and understand what's happening to the characters.
This is a difficult piece of theatrical literature, yet one of the most important and compelling of the last twenty years. For all its faluts (slipshod editing, internal contradictions, great length) it remains a valuable play, and one that hasn't received nearly the acclaim it deserves.
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Title: The Piano Lesson (Plume Drama) by August Wilson ISBN: 0452265347 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: December, 1990 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Death of A Salesman by Arthur Miller ISBN: 0140481346 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 06 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Play in Two Acts by August Wilson ISBN: 0452261139 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: March, 1988 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Joe Turner's Come and Gone: A Play in Two Acts by August Wilson ISBN: 0452260094 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: October, 1992 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Two Trains Running (Plume Drama) by August Wilson ISBN: 0452269296 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: January, 1993 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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