"The world's changing around you and you can't even see it."

In August Wilson's dramatic masterpiece, Troy Maxson, a one-time baseball star in the Negro Leagues, chafes against the limits of family life in Pittsburgh in the 1950s. Bitter over the chances denied him, Troy begins to build more fences around himself and his family. One of the greatest American plays of the twentieth century, Fences is part of August Wilson's 10-play chronicle of African-American life.