The life of former Negro-league baseball player Troy Maxson, here a sanitation worker trying his best to support his family, is explored in “Fences,” the Tony Award and 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by August Wilson, opening at West Springfield’s Majestic Theater on Thursday, Feb. 27. The show runs through April 6.
The play focuses on Maxson, a 53-year-old working class head of the household who struggles with providing for his family. He lives with his wife, Rose, and his teenage son, Cory. In his younger days, Maxson was an excellent baseball player and even played in the Negro Leagues, but that was before the color barrier in Major League Baseball had been broken. “Fences” explores the evolving challenge of a family attempting to build a safe home in the racially stratified 1950s suburban America.
