TY - SER
KW - infidelity
KW - waste collectors
KW - Negro league baseball
KW - Black Americans
AU - August Wilson
AB - The film adaptation of August Wilson's 1985 play in which Troy Maxson (Denzel Washington), a proud and embittered garbageman and ex-Negro Baseball League player, is constantly at odds with family and friends.
C1 - 1950s-60s
C2 - unpublished
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Hill District; Middle Hill; Crawford Grill; Homestead
C4 - Literary; Black; Slum; Sports; Psychological
LA - English
M3 - Screenplay
N1 - Viola Davis won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award.
N2 - The film adaptation of August Wilson's 1985 play in which Troy Maxson (Denzel Washington), a proud and embittered garbageman and ex-Negro Baseball League player, is constantly at odds with family and friends.
PY - 2016
RN - August Wilson (1945-2005), born Frederick August Kittel Jr. in Pittsburgh's Hill District neighborhood, won two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. He died in Seattle and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in O’Hara Twp., Allegheny County.
EP - 144 p.
TI - Fences
ER -