From legendary playwright August Wilson comes the powerful, stunning dramatic bestseller that won him critical acclaim, including the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize.Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s, a spirit that is changing the world Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can, a spirit that is making him a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never knew and to a wife and son he understands less and less. This is a modern classic, a book that deals with the impossibly difficult themes of race in America, set during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s.Now an Academy Award-winning film directed by and starring Denzel Washington, along with Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Viola Davis.
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Fences
von August Wilson
From legendary playwright August Wilson comes the powerful, stunning dramatic bestseller that won him critical acclaim, including the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize.Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s, a spirit that is changing the world Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can, a spirit that is making him a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never knew and to a wife and son he understands less and less. This is a modern classic, a book that deals with the impossibly difficult themes of race in America, set during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s.Now an Academy Award-winning film directed by and starring Denzel Washington, along with Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Viola Davis.
Aktuelle Rezensionen(2)
Rezension von IdalisI really liked this drama. I haven't read a play since I was in high school. Loved the sr
Rezension von Carlos R. Diaz"Fences" is August Wilson's baseball masterpiece. It's about baseball, black people and the beauty found in both. Troy Maxson is the featured player in this masterful play about a former ballplayer who is now battered, beaten, bruised and bedeviled. He lives in the ghettos of Pittsburgh and he collects trash for a living, circa 1950s America, an era of prosperity for everyone except hard-working black people. His wife is Rose and together they have a boy who is now a spirited teen who dreams of lofty goals, such as playing college football. Baseball is such a metaphor for life. We go to bat with the latent hope of hitting a towering moonshot only to bloop a single, stretch it out into a double, steal third and wind up getting stranded there. That's life. Hey, at least we got a chance at bat. That's "Fences" and so much, much more. That is all.