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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. 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 .

  4. 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 ...

  5. The Piano Lesson - Wikipedia

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    The Piano Lesson is a 1987 play by American playwright August Wilson.It is the fourth play in Wilson's The Pittsburgh Cycle.Wilson began writing this play by playing with the various answers regarding the possibility of "acquir[ing] a sense of self-worth by denying one's past". [1]

  6. Eugene O'Neill Theater Center - Wikipedia

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    Seven Guitars – August Wilson (1994) The Piano Lesson – August Wilson (1986) Joe Turner's Come and Gone – August Wilson (1984) Fences – August Wilson (1983) Danny and the Deep Blue Sea – John Patrick Shanley (1982) Ma Rainey's Black Bottom – August Wilson (1982) Agnes of God – John Pielmeier (1979) FOB – David Henry Hwang (1979)

  7. Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

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    Fences: August Wilson: The play by Wilson Hidden Figures: Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi: The book by Margot Lee Shetterly: Nocturnal Animals: Tom Ford: The novel Tony and Susan by Austin Wright: 2017 [53] [54] Call Me by Your Name: James Ivory: The novel by André Aciman: The Disaster Artist: Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber: The ...

  8. Set To Stun - data.huffingtonpost.com

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    In the moments after he was struck by the Taser, Scott’s legs bounced up and down uncontrollably on his 6-foot-3, 260-pound frame. After getting up, he couldn’t stop shaking from the pulsing waves of electricity, he said.

  9. Gem of the Ocean - Wikipedia

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    Gem of the Ocean (2003) is a play by American playwright August Wilson.Although the ninth play produced, chronologically it is the first installment of his decade-by-decade, ten-play chronicle, The Pittsburgh Cycle, dramatizing the African-American experience in the twentieth century.