Setting
The state Fences takez place in.
What is Pennsylania?
This is what a fence symbolizes.
What is a barrier that can hold people in or leave people out
The fence, for example.
Symbol
The city that Fences takes place in.
What is Pittsburgh?
what Troy wants Cory to do besides football.
What is Quit sports and get a job down at the A&P
ONE theme in the play as we've referenced
What is Family? Fathers and sons? Practical vs. impractical? Realist vs. Dreamers
The sport of baseball and how it permeates everything within Troy Maxson.
What is a motif?
The specific year this play takes place in.
What is 1957?
TWO conflicts as they are introduced in Act 1.
What is Troy's anger/ inconsistencies, the marital issues, money?
Troy wanted to be this.
What is a professional baseball player?
The fact that Troy speaks of death and how he must face it.
What is foreshadowing?
This is where most of the story takes place.
What is the Maxson's house?
This is the woman Troy cheats with and the supposed place where he meets her.
What is Alberta and Taylor's?
This is something Troy did to push away racism.
What is became the first Black Garbage truck driver?
The parenthetical notes to actors and us, as readers.
What are stage directions?
The name of the seemingly prestigious club Lyons wants Troy to watch him play.
What is the Grill?
The lens which impacts how YOU see the characters and/or plot?
What is the Reader Response?
Two reasons Troy could not attain his first dream.
What is being too old? What is what he would say "not the correct race"?
A word you would use to describe Cory and Troy's relationship.
What is turbulent? volatile? strict? unloving? controlling? [insert other word here]
Awards Wilson won for writing Fences.
What are a Tony Award and/ro Pulitzer Prize?