Fences

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Summary: There Will Be Better Days
Review: Fences, by August Wlison, is a play that potrays the many roles of an African-American family that lives during a difficult period of time when Africans were being segagrated. In the play, Rose Maxosn, a house wife in her early-fortys, has a difficult time handling her family. She always finds herself battling between the decisions that her husband, Troy Maxson, makes and with what she thinks is right. Throughout the play, life for Rose was a graet challenge, but even though the pain was great, she always holds her head up high and waits for better days. This play teaches us that being able to forgive and go on with your life potrays a lot of who you really are inside. When this script was placed in my hands, my head ached to the thought of having to read another boring book. To my surprise, when it was read out loud with great feeling, my heart jumped with excitment and joy. After I had gotten a sense of the characters feelings and language, I was unable to put it down. This book reached out to me like no other book has ever done before. The way that Rose was able to forgive so many inappropiate acts is very astonishing to me. I franckly admire Rose for being able to be a strong women and for sticking to what she says. I wish that everyone that reads this script is able to take a bit of sweetness from Rose.

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Summary: August Wilson's, "Fences"
Review: "Fences," by August Wilson, is a wonderful mix of drama and comedy that emphasizes the tribulations and confusions people were going through, during the changing sixties. In this two-act play, Troy Maxson is a middle-aged African American who is struggling to raise a son, keep a family together and deal with the new desires and needs everybody is beginning to feel as social standards slowly begin to change. As a child growing up, Troy did not have a great father figure, and he was not able to persue his dream of becoming a great baseball player as he grew older, because of racial limitations of the time period. Now as things begin to change for the better, he is still afraid of these limitations and overcoming them. His son wants to play football, but Troy doesn't want him to. He wants him to get a job and become good with his hands. As he refuses to let his son play, he pushes him away. He begins to push his wife away too, because he feels he needs his own space and has new desires. This play becomes a struggle for Troy to try to pass on morals he thinks are right and to be a proud man in a time where hatred is strong and boundaries are being broken. Troy Maxson is having to change his ways according to change and he grew up doing what he could to survive, so changing after so many years of living a certain way to survive is harder than anything he has had to deal with before. Will he come out of it successful?

A wonderful blend of characters, hysterical, beautiful, bold, courageous and passionate; this play is sure to win your favor.

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Summary: August Wilson's Best Work
Review: "Fences" is a wonderful drama that can relate to all people. The levels in the play are great because all of the dramatic characters have a comedic side, which balances the story.

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Summary: Fences, a book of races
Review: Fences written by august Wilson, is a thoughtful book about a strong black man who tries to keep up with the times, but can't escape his father's grip, his father was a mean abusing man . Troy would like to control everything in his life but he is usually unable to do that, this results in frustration in his life. The main focus of the book is his relationship with his son cory , an up and coming football player. His father however had a bad expierience with baseball and won't let cory play. Troy slowly loses his battle against his father and starts to become a bad guy. Troy also battles against his lust for less tame women like his wife. This is a very realistic story that even puts a mentally handicapped person in as troys brother a man who believes he is Gabriel a fallen angel. The play introduces lots of life lessons in an interesting fashion. the reader gets a good understanding of life of the black man in the time period. this play makes me more sympathetic to the black men in that time period

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Summary: CM says: A portrayal of races in the 20th cent.
Review: August Wilson's Fences is the story of Troy Maxson, a sanitation worker, who is a hard nose but well to do man. The book covers Troy's interactions with his children and these relationships are the center of Wilson's themes. When these relationship's are strained Troy tenses up and eventually boils over with his outburst at second son Cory. Themes to look for are responsibility vs. love and sports metaphors. Overall this book is a rather negatiove book that lacks perspective to be an accurate portrayal of the mid 20th century.

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Summary: August Wilson's Best Work
Review: "Fences" is a wonderful drama that can relate to all people. The levels in the play are great because all of the dramatic characters have a comedic side, which balances the story.

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Summary: FENCES IS A GOOD BOOK.
Review: If you have ever read a book called "Fences" you may think its a wonder full book , but I think its a good book. This book is not a book in which you think this is one of the best book. I agree that this book is pretty good but I think that the book could have had a better plot to it than it had. This book needs to let us know what happened to Cory one of the main characters in this play. Between this time period we don't ever find out if cory choose to go to the Marines or he just did it because he had no other choice.

"Fences" is a book in which their could of been a better setting and a more interesting plot to the whole book.I think that this book was a good book. It was a slow moving plot book in which everything was a little confusing, but not all that confusing. What I'm trying to let you know is that this is a good book to read and its o.k. to read.

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Summary: Fences Review
Review: In my opinion , i think Fences is a really good play to read. The story is based on this black man named Troy Maxson and his family. Troy Maxson had a dream that never came true and unlike troy his son cory had a passion for football and his father never wanted his son to pursue his dream , until cory left and went to the marines to become a better a man.
I also think that it brings out the struggles in a typical life in a family, and also the play brings out the cheating lies of what an unfaithful husband can do to his wife . I feel that if a person has been lied to or has any issues in their life they should read this play, because they can relate to whats going on this play .

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Summary: Real Characters in a Real Situation
Review: From the opening scene we as audience members are dropped whole into the world of the characters in August Wilson's classic play. The dialect of the characters, the hints of jargon, and the references that aren't explained but simply ARE allow us to be immersed in his setting. This back porch, with its visible foibles (exposed icebox, half-built fence) make Troy Maxson, his family, and his friends into new beings that become larger than their own lives--and very like our own lives.

There is nothing in this play we don't all have to face from day to day. Work, marriage, family disputes, mental illness, adultery, violence, and more events populate this play as surely as the characters do. Yet the clear, Sophoclean way they are addressed makes them matter to us in an immediate, powerful way.

The play is broken up into two acts, comprising eleven scenes. The first ten take place over a span of a few months, while the final provides an epilogue some years later. Some modern theatre purists will balk at this many divisions, and yet the way Wilson makes them pop will let an audience that loves theatre to both enjoy and understand what's happening to the characters.

This is a difficult piece of theatrical literature, yet one of the most important and compelling of the last twenty years. For all its faluts (slipshod editing, internal contradictions, great length) it remains a valuable play, and one that hasn't received nearly the acclaim it deserves.

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Summary: Real people, real world
Review: August Wilson has a reputation for being a storyteller. In Fences, more than in some of his other works, his storytelling is of people we know in struggles we have witnessed. I saw this play on Broadway some years ago, but found the written words very moving.