Fences that ConnectOctober 27, 2009 | Kathryn MobleyThis week, the curtain rises on an August Wilson play at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Set in the 1950's it's the sixth in Wilson's ten-part Pittsburgh Cycle. Fences examines how one African American man struggle to control the lives of his family ultimately undo him. This play earned Wilson the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a Tony Award for Best Actor for James Earl Jones.
Award winning actress Michele Shay is directing Fences at UNCSA...she's studied his pieces, worked with Mr. Wilson, in addition to performing and directing several of his plays.
Currently she's producing a documentary called A Moment in Time-August Wilson's 20th Century at the Kennedy Center and collaborating with Phylicia Rashad and UNCSA alumnus Stephen Henderson on a book called, "Acting August Wilson".
The University of North Carolina will open Wilson play, "Fences" this Thursday, at 7:30 p.m. at the Catawba Theatre of Performance Place on campus. And it runs through Nov. 7.
Call the UNCSA Box Office at 336-721-1945 for reservations, or visit to purchase tickets online.
The October 29th performance benefits The Larry Leon and Sylvia Sprinkle-Hamlin/Winston-Salem Urban League Endowed Scholarship Fund at UNCSA.
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