August Wilson

Fences

Published 1986-06-01 · 101 pages

During the 1950's Troy Maxson struggles against racism and tries to preserve his feelings of pride in himself.

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The Piano Lesson

Published 1990-12-01 · 108 pages

August Wilson has already given the American theater such spell-binding plays about the black experience in 20th-century America as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Fences. In his second Pulitzer Prize-winner, The Piano Lesson, Wilson has fashioned his most haunting and dramatic work yet. At the heart of the play stands the ornately carved upright piano which, as the Charles family's prized, hard-won possession, has been gathering dust in the parlor of Berniece Charles's Pittsburgh home.

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