This pack is written from a theatre maker’s perspective and we hope it provides some interesting insights into how a production like Fencees is created and performed.

“You born with two strikes on you before you come to the plate.”

Troy is a former baseball player who could’ve gone pro. He spends his days collecting garbage and his evenings spinning stories for family and friends. He is funny, charismatic and fiercely proud. He’s also a man with flaws, shaped by a lifetime battling a world that denies his dreams. And the scars run deep.

His wife, Rose, sees America changing. She dares to believe life can be different and dreams that their son, Cory, will have the freedom that Troy never did. But as she works to break the cycles holding her family back, Troy’s frustration and bitterness threatens to tear them apart.

Alive with rhythms of blues and jazz, humour and heartbreak, Fences is August Wilson’s Pulitzer prize-winning masterpiece. Set in the 1950’s, it is a timeless and deeply human portrait of grief, love and what it means to be a family in post-war Black America. One of the defining plays of the 20th century, it returns to the UK for the first time in over a decade in a vital new production directed by award-winning director Daniel Bailey (Red Pitch, West End).

Cast

Lyons Michael Ahomka-Lindsay
Rose Madeline Appiah
Troy Ray Fearon
Gabriel Simon-Anthony Rhoden
Cory Josh Tedeku
Jim Bono Everal A Walsh
Raynell Kezia Alanna-Ama, Daphne Muli, Aita Mushuku. Eliana Musongole, Pelo Thithi, Kaiya Tomlinson

Creatives

Writer August Wilson
Director Daniel Bailey
Set and Costume Designer Lily Arnold
Composer and Sound Designer Khalil Madovi
Lighting Designer Jai Morjaria
Movement Director Shelley Maxwell
Fight Director Kev McCurdy 
Voice and Dialect Coach Aundrea Fudge
WHAM Supervisor Dominique Hamilton
Associate Director Amber Ruby
Design Associate Emily King
Casting Director Heather Basten CDG