Fences is the sixth installment of August Wilson's Century Cycle (also known as the Pittsburgh Cycle), a series of ten plays, each portraying the complexity of Black lives in one of the decades of the 20th century. Fences is one of the most famous plays from this cycle, but other notable plays include Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Gem of the Ocean, and The Piano Lesson.
August Wilson is one of the most important American playwrights of the 20th century. Other major figures of American drama are Amiri Baraka, Samuel Beckett, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, David Mamet, and Lorraine Hansberry.
Wilson's plays are primarily about Black American experience. Others significant plays that...
