Interest in the play now extends far beyond the US. These are lives otherwise overlooked by an indifferent white community. Wilson’s work continues to compel audiences not simply through its imaginative power, but because its rounded insider’s perspective makes ordinary African Americans sympathetically visible as they love and struggle. Fences became an acclaimed Hollywood film in 2016.
A pathbreaking force in shaping African American drama, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for both Fences (1987) and The Piano Lesson (1990). Wilson was born in 1945 in a poor district of Pittsburgh he died in 2005. It was first developed in 1983 by celebrated African American dramatist August Wilson, becoming a successful Broadway production in 1987. Fences, a creative examination of a black family’s experience, is one of the most frequently performed plays in the US.
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