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Pulitzer Prize for Drama<span></span></span></p>

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Best Play<br>
Michael Oatman, Director<br>
Marc C. Howard, Producer<span></span></span></p>

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Aurora, OH 44202<span></span></span></p>

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2-3-minute prepared dramatic monologue.  <span></span></span></p>

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auditions.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Troy Maxson<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size:9pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">-  The protagonist of<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><i><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Fences,</span></i><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>a
fifty-three-year-old, African American man who works for the sanitation
department, lifting garbage into trucks. Troy is also a former baseball star in
the Negro Leagues. Troy's athletic ability diminished before the Major Leagues
accepted blacks. Hard-working, strong and prone to telling compelling, fanciful
stories and twisting the truth, Troy is the family breadwinner and plays the
dominant role in his over thirty-year friendship with fellow sanitation worker,
Jim Bono. Troy's character is the centerpiece that all of the other
relationships in<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><i><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Fences</span></i><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>gather
around. Troy is husband to Rose, father to Lyons, Cory, and Raynell, and
brother to Gabriel. Troy is a tragic-hero who has excessive pride for his
breadwinning role. Troy's years of hard-work for only meager progress depress
him. Troy often fails to provide the love and support that would mean the most
to his loved ones.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Cory Maxson<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size:9pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">-  The teenage son of Troy and Rose Maxson. A senior in high
school, Cory gets good grades and college recruiters are coming to see him play
football. Cory is a respectful son, compassionate nephew to his disabled Uncle
Gabriel, and generally, a giving and enthusiastic person. An ambitious young
man who has the talent and determination to realize his dreams, Cory comes of
age during the play when he challenges and confronts Troy and leaves home. Cory
comes home from the Marines in the final scene of the play, attempting to defy
Troy by refusing to go to his funeral, but Cory changes his mind after sharing
memories of his father with Rose and Raynell.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Rose Maxson<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size:9pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">-  Troy's wife and mother of his second child, Cory. Rose is a forty-three-year-old
African American housewife who volunteers at her church regularly and loves her
family. Rose's request that Troy and Cory build a fence in their small, dirt
backyard comes to represent her desire to keep her loved-ones close to her
love. Unlike Troy, Rose is a realist, not a romantic longing for the by- gone
days of yore. She has high hopes for her son, Cory and sides with him in his
wish to play football. Rose's acceptance of Troy's illegitimate daughter,
Raynell, as her own child, exemplifies her compassion.</span><b><span style="font-size:9pt;line-height:107%;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"><span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:9pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Gabriel Maxson<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size:9pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">-  Troy's brother. Gabriel was a soldier in
the Second World War, during which he received a head injury that required a
metal plate to be surgically implanted into his head. Because of the physical
damage and his service, Gabriel receives checks from the government that Troy
used in part to buy the Maxson's home where the play takes place. Gabriel
wanders around the Maxson family's neighborhood carrying a basket and singing.
He often thinks he is not a person, but the angel Gabriel who opens the gates
of heaven with his trumpet for Saint Peter on Judgment Day. Gabriel exudes a
child-like exuberance and a need to please.<span></span></span></p>

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Troy's best friend of over thirty years. Jim Bono is usually called
"Bono" or "Mr. Bono" by the characters in <i><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Fences.</span></i> Bono and Troy met in jail, where Troy
learned to play baseball. Troy is a role model to Bono. Bono is the only
character in <i><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Fences</span></i> who remembers,
first-hand, Troy's glory days of hitting homeruns in the Negro Leagues. Less
controversial than Troy, Bono admires Troy's leadership and responsibility at
work. Bono spends every Friday after work drinking beers and telling stories
with Troy in the Maxson family's backyard. He is married to a woman named
Lucille, who is friends with Rose. Bono is a devoted husband and friend. Bono's
concern for Troy's marriage takes precedent over his loyalty to their
friendship.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><a name="6"></a><b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Lyons Maxson </span></b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">-  Troy's son, fathered before Troy's time
in jail with a woman Troy met before Troy became a baseball player and before
he met Rose. Lyons is an ambitious and talented jazz musician. He grew up
without Troy for much of his childhood because Troy was in prison. Lyons, like
most musicians, has a hard time making a living. For income, Lyons mostly
depends on his girlfriend, Bonnie whom we never see on stage. Lyons does not
live with Troy, Rose and Cory, but comes by the Maxson house frequently on
Troy's payday to ask for money. Lyons, like Rose, plays the numbers, or local
lottery. Their activity in the numbers game represents Rose and Lyons' belief
in gambling for a better future. Lyons' jazz playing appears to Troy as an
unconventional and foolish occupation. Troy calls jazz, "Chinese
music," because he perceives the music as foreign and impractical. Lyons'
humanity and belief in himself garners respect from others.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Raynell Maxson </span></b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">-  Troy's illegitimate child, mothered by
Alberta, his lover. August Wilson introduces Raynell to the play as an infant.
Her innocent need for care and support convinces Rose to take Troy back into
the house. Later, Raynell plants seeds in the once barren dirt yard. Raynell is
the only Maxson child that will live with few scars from Troy and is emblematic
of new hope for the future and the positive values parents and older
generations pass on to their young.<span></span></span></p>

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