Fences is a 1985 play by the American playwright August Wilson. Set in the 1950s, it is the sixth in Wilson's ten-part "Pittsburgh Cycle". Like all of the "Pittsburgh" plays, Fences explores the evolv

The Pittsburgh Cycle is a cycle of ten plays written by August Wilson. Also known as The American Century Cycle, each of the ten plays is set with a predominantly black cast in a different decade of t