Denzel Washington stars in Fences, one of the ten plays in August Wilson's sweeping Pittsburgh Cycle, focusing on aspects of the twentieth-century African-American experience. Washington plays Troy Maxson, a Pittsburgh sanitation worker who once dreamed of a baseball career, but was too old when the major leagues finally admitted black players. As he faces off against the racial barriers at work and his own disappointments, Troy also grapples with his son over the teenager's hope for a football scholarship and with his wife, Rose (Viola Davis), who confronts Troy over a child he has fathered with another woman.
Producers: Carole Shorenstein Hays and Scott Rudin |
