Fences

The focus of Wilson's attention in Fences is Troy, a 53-year-old head of household who struggles with providing for his family. The play takes place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; although never officially named it makes mention to several key locations in Pittsburgh. Troy was a great baseball player in his younger years, having spent time practicing while in prison for an accidental murder he had committed during a robbery. Because the color barrier had not yet been broken in Major League Baseball, Troy was unable to make good money or to save for the future. (However, one line within the play does cast some doubt as to whether it was Troy's age, not his skin color, that kept him from becoming a professional baseball player.) He now lives a menial, though respectable life of trash collecting-remarkably crossing the race barrier and becoming a driver instead of just a barrel lifter. He lives with his wife, Rose, his son Cory (who still lives in the house at the play's opening), and Troy's younger brother Gabriel, an ex-soldier whose war injury to his head has caused him noticeable psychological damage. Lyons is Troy's son from a previous marriage, and lives outside the home. Bono is Troy's best friend. Troy had taken Gabriel's money that he'd been entitled to for his injury, and bought the house he currently lives in. A short time before the play's opening, Gabriel has rented a room elsewhere, but still in the neighborhood.

Track Listing: 1. Gabriel's Trumpet 2. Cory's Theme 3. Alone at the Bar 4. You Don't Know What Love Is 5. You Got The Devil In You 6. Peace Be Still 7. A Womanless Man 8. Fences 9. Troy's Story 10. I Will Wear A Crown 11. Rose's Theme 12. They Could Do Nothing for Her 13. Confession 14. City Hall 15. A Dog Named Blue 16. Day By Day 17. God's Closet

FENCES is directed by Denzel Washington from a screenplay by August Wilson, adapted from Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. The film stars Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Jovan Adepo, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Russell Hornsby, Mykelti Williamson, and Saniyya Sydney. The film is produced by Scott Rudin, Denzel Washington and Todd Black. "Fences Trailer 2 (2016) - Paramount Pictures" When I first met this woman, I saw Rose and I latched on to her. I told her, "Baby, I don't wanna marry. I just wanna be your man." Rose told me... I told him if he wasn't the marrying kind then move out the way so the marrying kind could find me. That's what she told me. You're in my way, you're blocking the view. Move out the way so I can find me a husband. Where Cory? I want him to help me with this fence. He got recruited by a college football team. It ain't gonna get him nowhere. If he be like you in the sports he gonna be all right. Ain't but two men ever played baseball as good as you. And what it ever get me, I ain't got a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of. Hey, Pop. Can I ask you a question? How come you ain't ever liked me? What law is there say I got to like you? A man is supposed to take care of his family. You live in my house. Fill your belly with my food. Put your behind on my bed, because you're my son. Now don't you go through life worrying about whether somebody like you or not. You best be making sure they're doing right by you. Cory just trying to fill out your shoes. I don't want him to be like me. I want him to get as far away from my life as he possibly can get. You the only decent thing that ever happened to me, Rose. You can't be nobody but who you are, Troy. That's all you got to measure yourself against the world out there. Rose, I got something to tell you. I don't know how to tell you this. Why, Troy? Why? You ought to know, it's time. I don't wanna know dammit! What you ever given me? Your feet, them bones, that pumpin' heart. You ain't never done nothin' but hold me back. Afraid I was gonna be better than you. Everything that boy do, he do for you. It's not easy for me to admit that I been standing in the same place for 18 years. Well I been standing with you! I got a life too. Don't you think I had dreams and hopes? What about my life, what about me?! What are you gonna do? Some people build fences to keep people out, and other people build fences to keep people in. Based On The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Play By August Wilson From Director Denzel Washington This Christmas Two-Time Academy Award Winner Denzel Washington Academy Award Nominee Viola Davis Fences Screenplay By August Wilson Based Upon His Play Directed By Denzel Washington FencesMovie.com Christmas Day