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  2. Fences (play) - Wikipedia

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    Fences is a 1985 play by the American playwright August Wilson. Set in the 1950s, it is the sixth in Wilson's ten-part " Pittsburgh Cycle ". Like all of the "Pittsburgh" plays, Fences explores the evolving African-American experience and examines race relations , among other themes.

  3. August Wilson - Wikipedia

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    August Wilson (né Frederick August Kittel Jr.; April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright. He has been referred to as the "theater's poet of Black America". [ 1 ] He is best known for a series of 10 plays, collectively called The Pittsburgh Cycle (or The Century Cycle ) , which chronicle the experiences and heritage of the ...

  4. Fences (film) - Wikipedia

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    Fences is a 2016 American period drama film directed and co-produced by Denzel Washington from a screenplay by August Wilson, based on his 1985 play. It stars Washington, Viola Davis , Stephen McKinley Henderson , Jovan Adepo , Russell Hornsby , Mykelti Williamson , and Saniyya Sidney .

  5. Curtains close for August Wilson’s ‘Fences’ at Fort Worth’s ...

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    Released in 1985, “Fences” is Wilson’s sixth play in his ten-part “Pittsburgh Cycle,” which was told across decades to document the African American experience in the 20th Century.

  6. List of fiction set in Pittsburgh - Wikipedia

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    The Pittsburgh Cycle - In 2005, August Wilson completed a ten-play cycle, nine of which are set in Pittsburgh, chronicling the African-American experience in the 20th century. These are: 1900s - Gem of the Ocean (2003)

  7. Denzel Washington's 15 best and 15 worst movies, according to ...

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    Washington received two Oscar nominations for "Fences": one for producing and one for acting. The film, based on the August Wilson play of the same name, costars Washington and Viola Davis as a ...

  8. ‘The Piano Lesson’ Star Danielle Deadwyler on How August ...

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    Adding to the pressure was that his father, Denzel Washington, had previously directed another Wilson adaptation, “Fences” (2016), and George C. Wolfe had helmed “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom ...

  9. Old Blue (song) - Wikipedia

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    Since this early recording, a number of covers and variations of this song have been recorded. In his 1985 play, Fences, August Wilson uses Jim Jackson's version as a leitmotif, and the play's central character (who had a dog named Blue as a boy) says his father originated the song.