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Fences-Playguide.Pdf APRIL 26 - MAY 22, 2016 | QUADRACCI POWERHOUSE Directed by Lou Bellamy Associate Producers: Executive Producers: Carol and Rob Manegold & James E. and Mary K. Braza Catherine and Buddy Robinson www.MilwaukeeRep.com | 414-224-9490 APRIL 26 - MAY 22, 2016 | QUADRACCI POWERHOUSE Directed by Lou Bellamy Executive Producers: James E. and Mary K. Braza A Co-Production with Associate Producers: Carol and Rob Manegold & Arizona Theatre Company Catherine and Buddy Robinson and Indiana Repertory Theatre Table of Contents Synopsis . 3 Mark Clements Biography of August Wilson . 3 ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Cast and Creative Team . 3 Chad Bauman “Mr. Wilson and Me” by Lou Bellamy. 4 MANAGING DIRECTOR Panel Discussions . 4 ✸ ✸ ✸ Pittsburgh and the Hill District. 5 PLAYGUIDE WRITTEN BY Samantha Bahr 20th Century Cycle. 6 Education Intern Characters in Fences . 7 Abby Stein August Wilson’s Introduction to Fences . 7 Education Intern The African American Experience in the 1950s . 8 PLAYGUIDE EDITED BY Jenny Toutant Negro League and African Americans in Baseball . 9 Education Director Glossary of Terms and References. 10 Amanda Garrigan Education Resident Featured Artist: Hope Parrow, Education Associate . 12 Lisa Fulton Fences: A Coproduction . 13 Director of Marketing and Communications Bibliography . 13 GRAPHIC DESIGN Visiting The Rep . 14 EricEric RRedaeda 2 ExecutiveExecutive Producers:Producers: Fences - PlayGuide JackieJackie HerHerd-Barberd-Barber & MicMichaelhael BarBarberber SYNOPSIS CAST August Wilson’s Fences explores a family’s hopes and dreams in a rapidly James T. Alfred - Lyons changing 1950s America. Troy Maxson, a former Negro League baseball player, must grapple with the reality of his life as a sanitation worker in David Allen Anderson - Troy Maxson Pittsburgh. His frustrations and disappointments about his life affect his Terry Bellam - Gabriel wife, Rose, and his son, Cory, both of whom have to deal with the decisions Troy makes. Marcus Naylor - Bono Edgar Sanchez - Cory ABOUT THE AUTHOR: AUGUST WILSON Kim Staunton - Rose Makayla Davis - Raynell Born Frederick August Kittel, August Wilson was born in the Hill District Maya O’Day Biddle - Raynell of Pittsburgh in 1945. His neighborhood became a common setting for many of his plays. At the age of 15, Wilson dropped out of high school, but independently continued his education at the Carnegie Library of CREATIVE TEAM Pittsburgh. His father, Frederick Kittel, a German immigrant, was absent for most of August’s life. In 1965, after Frederick passed away, August Lou Bellamy officially took his mother Daisy’s maiden name, Wilson. Director Wilson began his writing career as a poet, but was largely unsuccessful. Vicki Smith In 1978, Wilson moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he began to focus Scenic Designer more on writing plays. He wrote his first play, Jitney, in 1979, and Matthew J. Lefebvre received a fellowship from the Minneapolis Playwrights Center shortly Costume Designer after in 1980. In 1982, Wilson met Lloyd Richards, the African American Artistic Director at the Yale Repertory Theatre. Richards would direct the Don Darnutzer first of Wilson’s plays in what is known as the 20Th century cycle: a series Lighting Designer of ten plays, each set in a different century, depicting the life of African Brian Jerome Peterson Americans over the course of the century. With two Pulitzer Prizes, Sound Designer August Wilson is considered one of the most acclaimed playwrights of the 20th century. Brent Gibbs Fight Choreographer In 2005, Wilson was diagnosed with liver cancer at the age of 60. He died on October 2, 2005 in Seattle, just six months after the premiere of his Anne M. Jude final play, Radio Golf. Stage Manager August Wilson (Photo Credit: Britannica.com) www.MilwaukeeRep.com 3 MR. WILSON AND ME by Lou Bellamy, director My relationship with the Wilson canon is largely due to my friendship with the playwright as well as my role as founding artistic director of Penumbra Theatre Company in Saint Paul, Minnesota. As artistic director, I produced Mr. Wilson’s first professional production—Black Bart and the Sacred Hills in 1982. Penumbra Theatre continues to hold the record for having produced more of his work than any theatre in the world. Mr. Wilson was a member of Penumbra Theatre Company and wrote Malcolm X, a one-man show, expressly for me to perform. I’ve had the honor of bringing several of his characters to life on the Lou Bellamy stage, including Troy Maxson, Wilson’s flawed hero inFences . (Photo Credit: Star Tribune) My professional aesthetic, my relationship with and interpretation of history, and the manner in which I present African American comportment and culture on stage is shaped by his work. I find the spaces Wilson has engineered in this work capable of being filled by authentic African American cultural rhythms and nuance. Yet, Fences remains perhaps August Wilson’s most accessible play. Maybe it’s the structure, which weaves Wilson’s tale around a single, Lear-like figure who has at once engendered deep understanding, revulsion, and identification from audiences all over the world. The ensemble you will meet in this production (which includes IRT stalwart David Alan Anderson) is easily the strongest I’ve had the pleasure of leading. The quality and attention to detail of the designers is, in my estimation, without equal. Please enjoy the fruits of our labor, and experience the “thunder” that is Fences. This interview is used with permission from the Indiana Repertory Theatre, with which Milwaukee Repertory along with Arizona Theatre Company have collaborated to create this co-production of Fences at three different theaters. PANEL DISCUSSIONS INSPIRED BY FENCES Part of The Rep’s mission is to provoke meaningful dialogue, which our new Community Engagement department has been active in implementing through our programming. For our production of Fences, we will be hosting panels of speakers that have been directly involved in issues that are confronted in and by the play. Join us at one of following discussions! Celebrating the Legacy and Looking to the Fatherhood in Milwaukee From the Negro League to Today: Future of African American Theater Sunday May 1st, 4:45pm – 5:30pm Milwaukee’s African American Tuesday April 26th, 6:15pm – 7:15pm Following the 2pm performance of Fences Baseball Legends Pay What You Can Preview Performance of “Everything that boy do…he do for Sunday May 8th, 4:45pm – 5:30pm Fences to follow at 7:30pm you. He wants you to say ‘Good job Following the 2pm performance of Fences Penumbra Theater, under the leadership of Founder and son.’ That’s all.” – Rose, August Wilson’s Fences Troy Maxson in Fences is a former Negro Artistic Director Lou Bellamy, produced August Wilson’s Much of Fences centers on the relationship League Baseball player grappling with first professional production and has gone on to of Troy to his father and Troy to his children. his history of being excluded from the produce more of August Wilson’s work than any other Hear responses to the play from communi- Major Leagues and his own son’s love theater in the world. Join Lou Bellamy and Chicago and ty organizers leading programs that create of and talent in sports. Join local Milwaukee based actors, directors, and African strong male role models in our city and baseball legends for a conversation American arts leaders in a conversation celebrating support Milwaukee fathers. about the history of the Negro League August Wilson’s legacy and discussing about the future and the roll of baseball in the lives of of African American theater. The conversation will kick African American youth today. off with a tribute to August Wilson and Lou Bellamy by the next generation of emerging artists. 4 Fences - PlayGuide PITTSBURGH AND THE HILL DISTRICT Referred to as the “gateway to the west” in its early days, Pittsburgh was once known for steel production and mining. The city was also home to several stops on the abolitionists’ Underground Railroad during the Civil War. The Hill District is a group of historically African American neighborhoods in Pittsburgh that is known as a center for jazz music and African American culture. The Hill District of Pittsburgh is a common setting for Wilson’s plays, as the map to the right shows. (Map reprinted with permission from South Coast Repertory Theater) PITTSBURGH: Then and Now THEN NOW Population 670,000+ 300,000+ Main Industry Steel production Technology Baseball 62W-92L 98W-64L Win/Loss Record (7th in the league in 1957) (2nd in the league in 2015) THE HILL DISTRICT: Then and Now THEN (1950s) NOW (2010s) • Population: 53,648 lived in the Hill District (1950) • Population: 10,450 lived in the Hill District (2010) • Main Thoroughfares: Fullerton Street and Wylie • Main Thoroughfares: the 2000 block of Centre Avenue, which bisects Avenue- known as “the crossroads of the world” for jazz the Hill District, is under development, guided by the Hill District and entertainment. Community Development Committee and the City of Pittsburgh. Last • Local Businesses: The Hill District existed as a city fall, a Shop 'n Save opened on Centre Avenue. This is the area’s first within a city. It contained everything someone would grocery store to open in a generation. Centre Avenue also has recently need for day-to-day existences drugstores, shoe stores, opened a new YMCA and Carnegie Library. a department store, hotels, theaters, etc. There was no • Local Businesses: The Grenada Theater, located at 2007 Centre need to go downtown or leave the Hill for any other Avenue, is currently closed, but is slated to be renovated and restored. business. In its heyday, great jazz artists like Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and • Civic Arena Area: To make way for construction of the Ella Fitzgerald played there.
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