{"id":33334,"date":"2014-09-15T14:40:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T18:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=33334"},"modified":"2022-09-29T12:39:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T16:39:57","slug":"wright-state-opens-40th-season-with-fences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/09\/15\/wright-state-opens-40th-season-with-fences\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State opens 40th season with \u2018Fences\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>August Wilson\u2019s 1987 Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning drama \u201cFences,\u201d an indelible portion of Wilson\u2019s impressive 10-part \u201cPittsburgh Cycle\u201d chronicling the African-American experience in the 20th century, opens Wright State University\u2019s 40th anniversary season Thursday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"story_premium_fill\">\n<p>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\u2019s 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\u2019s Bolinga Black Cultural Resource Center and dedicated to the late Ruby Dee, who co-narrated WSU\u2019s \u201c1913: The Great Dayton Flood\u201d with her late husband Ossie Davis, as well as Martin Sheen.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydaytondailynews.com\/news\/entertainment\/arts-theater\/wsu-opens-40th-season-with-fences\/nhKzd\/#89258256.3637721.735491\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dayton Daily News<\/a> (subscription required).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt August Wilson\u2019s 1987 Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning drama \u201cFences,\u201d an indelible portion of Wilson\u2019s impressive 10-part \u201cPittsburgh Cycle\u201d chronicling the African-American experience in the 20th century, opens Wright State University\u2019s 40th anniversary season Thursday. In this profound, riveting tale &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/09\/15\/wright-state-opens-40th-season-with-fences\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":33339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4859,747,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fine-and-performing-arts","category-liberal-arts","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130528,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33334\/revisions\/130528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}