{"id":33563,"date":"2014-09-25T16:49:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T20:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=33563"},"modified":"2022-09-29T12:40:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T16:40:18","slug":"fences-review-wright-state-university-the-american-family-in-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/09\/25\/fences-review-wright-state-university-the-american-family-in-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fences\u2019 review \u2013 Wright State University \u2013 The American family in conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>August Wilson\u2019s tremendously visceral 1987 Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning drama \u201cFences,\u201d among the finest inclusions in his remarkable 10-play \u201cPittsburgh Cycle\u201d chronicling the African-American experience in the 20th century, opens Wright State University\u2019s 40th anniversary season with emotionally riveting resonance.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning in 1957 and spanning nearly eight years in the life of a middle class African-American family in Pittsburgh, \u201cFences,\u201d splendidly and poignantly co-directed by W. Stuart McDowell and Sheila Ramsey, centers its thought-provoking account of race, regret, responsibility, faith, struggle and sacrifice on Troy Maxson (Law Dunford), a dysfunctional, disillusioned former Negro League baseball hotshot. In the Maxsons backyard, where the engrossing action transpires, loudmouth Troy is king of his castle, a welcomed escape from his daily grind as a sanitation worker longing for a promotion.<\/p>\n<p>Read the review from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mostmetro.com\/entertainment\/fences-review-wright-state-university-the-american-family-in-conflict.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dayton Most Metro<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt August Wilson\u2019s tremendously visceral 1987 Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning drama \u201cFences,\u201d among the finest inclusions in his remarkable 10-play \u201cPittsburgh Cycle\u201d chronicling the African-American experience in the 20th century, opens Wright State University\u2019s 40th anniversary season with emotionally riveting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/09\/25\/fences-review-wright-state-university-the-american-family-in-conflict\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":33396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4859,715,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fine-and-performing-arts","category-news","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33563","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=33563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130529,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33563\/revisions\/130529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}