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February 13, 2017

FENCES is set in the 1950s and is about a family torn apart by its patriarch Troy (Denzel Washington).  Troy is so caught up in his own suffering at the hands of society and his life circumstance that he cannot allow himself any happiness.  Though trying to escape his father, Troy becomes him.  Viola Davis plays Troy’s wife, Rose.  Both Washington and Davis won Tonys for their work in the 2010 Broadway revival of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play upon which this is based.

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