Wright State opens 40th season with ‘Fences’

In this profound, riveting tale of a working-class family circa 1957, sanitation worker Troy Maxson, a former Negro League baseball player, copes with personal demons threatening to destroy his existence. Most paramount is his infidelity that shocks his devoted wife Rose to the core. By examining Troy’s world in a fundamentally universal fashion, Wilson, who died in 2005, allows audiences of all ethnicities a chance to discover a relatable realism they may not have understood or recognized before from the African-American perspective. The production is co-sponsored by WSU’s Bolinga Black Cultural Resource Center and dedicated to the late Ruby Dee, who co-narrated WSU’s “1913: The Great Dayton Flood” with her late husband Ossie Davis, as well as Martin Sheen.

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