A REVIEW

'Fences' portrays '50s but speaks to today

BY JANE COLLINS
Special to The Sumter Item
Posted 8/26/18

The setting of August Wilson's "Fences" may be Pittsburg in the 1950s, the characters may be blacks and the issues may include attitudes about race; but Wilson's play projects universal themes, characters and situations still current today. The …

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