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He plays Troy Maxson, perhaps the most towering of all Wilsons creations. Troy was once a promising baseball player whose prospects were hampered by his colour. Now he is a garbage collector, apparently anchored by bullish pride and his marriage to the gracious and sometimes fierce Rose (Tanya Moodie, excellent).
Henry finds richness and depth in the role: at first Troy looks like a jovial boozehound, but we gradually see his complexity. He is a flawed and wounded character, capable of plundering his brothers post-war disability allowance. Even his efforts to construct a fence around his Pittsburgh home are double-edged: he wants to confine his family and also keep the rest of the world at bay.
Troy is prone to conflict, above all with his sons. Cory (Ashley Zhangazha) has a talent for American football, which may hold the key to his getting a better education than Troy ever had. Lyons (Peter Bankol) is a gifted musician. Troy takes no interest in Lyonss music and dismisses him as a scrounger, but reserves truly humiliating treatment for the younger and more vulnerable Cory.
Director Paulette Randall locates the plays emotional core. The relationships are all convincingly presented, and theres exuberant work from Colin McFarlane as Troys drinking buddy Jim Bono and Ako Mitchell as his mentally disturbed brother, Gabriel. Crucially, too, the restrictions of Troys world are well defined. Yet Wilsons writing is verbose, laden with a symbolism that is rather too obvious. His epic ambition and the universality of his themes dont quite make up for the clunky exposition and overstretched metaphors especially about baseball.
Running two and three-quarter hours, Fences is dense and unsettling. Its brave to programme such a meaty, daunting piece during the summer months. But it is worth seeing for Henrys immense performance, which switches compellingly from humour to fury and from hopefulness to piercing disillusionment.
Until September 14 (0844 482 9672, duchesstheatre.co.uk)
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Lenny Henry gives a great performance in Paulette Randall's production of August Wilson's Fences, providing the "must-see performance in town"
Lenny Henry gives a truly outstanding dare I say it, truly great performance as the Pittsburgh garbage man and washed-up former baseball star Troy Maxson in August Wilson's Fences (1983), a play that is rightly recognised as a twentieth century African-American classic.
Wilson's project of writing a cycle of theatre for that century, one play for each decade, is one of the noblest in the American theatre, and Fences, set in the Hill District of Pittsburgh in 1957, the high point, partly because, in Troy, Wilson created the greatest black American character since Eugene O'Neill's Emperor Jones.
Like the Emperor, Troy is seriously flawed: he has an uneasy relationship with both grown-up sons, cheats on his wife, and drinks himself stupid every Friday night; almost incidentally to the energy of this play, he killed a man in a blur and was jailed for fifteen years.
And yet, and certainly in Henry's performance, he's a life force and a symbol of evolutionary resistance who invokes an ancestral history of cotton-picking penury and a generation of the black underclass who simply went walking until they came to "something." Troy is building a fence round his back yard to secure that "something."
He excelled at baseball, but at a time when black players were excluded from the major league sides, so he's jealous of his second son, Cory's (Ashley Zhangazha), potential pre-eminence on the field, undermining his progress; his elder son, Lyons (Peter Bankole), is a jazz-loving drifter to whom he grudgingly "subs" a few dollars.
As in Arthur Miller's doomed travelling salesman, Willy Loman, whom Wilson must have had in mind, we get a modern tragic hero seen by the light of a changing America and his own personal eclipse. And Paulette Randall's production, which certainly matches the British premiere in 1990 starring Yaphet Kotto as Troy and Adrian Lester as Cory, gives Henry the best possible support.
Lenny Henry as Troy Nobby Clark He's buttressed not only by Moodie and the excellent work of Zhangazha and Bankole, but also by Colin McFarlane as his neighbour and fellow worker Jim Bono, a nodding sideman who shares the Friday night gin bottle on the front porch and plans to buy his own wife a fridge when Troy completes his fencing.
Wilson's plays can sometimes be hard work, in a good way. But his last act is an astonishing theatrical post-script, with the surprise addition of sweet-singing Crystal Mills one of three girls in the role bonding with Cory, now a marine corporal, in Troy's jazz dog wail, an item dramatically akin to Archie Rice's Negro spiritual in The Entertainer, and Gabriel dancing up an angry storm.
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TBILISI, June 27 (RIA Novosti) NATO on Thursday once again harshly criticized Russias construction of barbed-wire fences along an ex-Georgian regions 350-kilometer border with that country.
Georgia lost control of a fifth of its territory in 2008 after fighting a five-day war with Russia over the breakaway region, South Ossetia. Russia subsequently granted independence to that region and the nearby province of Abkhazia, but reportedly gave the residents Russian passports.
Speaking in Georgias capital, Tbilisi, on Thursday, NATOs secretary general reiterated, nearly word-for-word, comments that he made early this month when the fences were reported.
Fence-building impedes freedom of movement. It can further inflame tensions. It is not acceptable and should be reversed, Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said at the opening of Georgias National Parliamentary Library.
He commended Georgia for being a strong supporter of shared security and having more troops in Afghanistan than any other of NATOs partner nations. He hailed the countrys progress on the path to Euro-Atlantic integration, including in NATO, adding that Georgias Euro-Atlantic integration will only be a matter of time.
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Military conflict between Russia and Georgia in August 2008
Late last month, the Georgian Foreign Ministry said Russian border guards had installed barbed-wire fences along Georgias border with South Ossetia and had even pushed the border line inside Georgia.
Georgia maintains its claim to sovereignty over both Abkhazia and South Ossetia, whose Russia-proclaimed independence has been recognized by only a handful of other nations.
Rasmussen on Thursday urged Russia to maintain peace in the area, in keeping with an agreement signed in the wake of the August 2008 conflict. Such moves [building fences] are contrary to international law, and they are contrary to the ceasefire agreement, he said.
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Updated: Friday, June 28 2013 2:50 PM EDT2013-06-28 18:50:43 GMT
More than 200 kids were swinging for the fences in Fairmount Park Friday Morning. It was all part of the Police Athletic League's Annual Home Run Derby. FOX29's Dawn Timmeney was there during "Good Day
More than 200 kids were swinging for the fences in Fairmount Park Friday Morning.
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Fellow radio host Tony Bruno talks about how Darren Daulton is doing, and how much public support has already been expressed for the beloved former Phillies catcher.
Fellow radio host Tony Bruno talks to "Good Day Philadelphia" about how Darren Daulton is doing, and how much public support has already been expressed for the beloved former Phillies catcher.
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Time is running out in the race to find funds for Philadelphia schools. Among those joining the cause is State Senator Anthony Williams, who joined FOX29's Mike Jerrick and Sheinelle Jones via satellite during
Time is running out in the race to find funds for Philadelphia schools.
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OMAHA, Neb. The lack of offense, most notably home runs, has been a major topic of conversation among fans and media at the College World Series.
The NCAA has noticed, too, but no immediate changes are planned in an attempt bring up the numbers.
There were three home runs hit in the first 13 games, and some have suggested that the fences should be moved in at TD Ameritrade Park.
All of that costs money, and we would do that why? So there would be a few more home runs? Is it worth it? said Damani Leech, the NCAAs director of championships and alliances. Weve only had three home runs, yet weve had the highest average attendance in the history of the College World Series.
Leech officially takes over as lead administrator for the CWS on July 1, replacing the retiring Dennis Poppe.
Leech said in an interview Tuesday that the offensive issues at the CWS coincide with the drop in offense throughout all of college baseball since the dialed-back metal bats were put into play in 2011. According to the NCAAs midseason statistics report, the latest data available, the per-team average for home runs was about one every three games. The year before the new bat specifications, the average was about one a game.
Leech noted that there were nine home runs hit at TD Ameritrade Park in its first year, 2011, and there were 10 last year.
Were folks comfortable with that number? Leech said. Thats the kind of conversation weve got to have, that the baseball committees got to have. Are we comfortable with the kind of baseball thats being played here at our premier national event?
The fences at TD Ameritrade Park are 335 feet down the lines, 375 in the power alleys and 408 to center field. Those are identical to the dimensions at the old Rosenblatt Stadium, where there were an average of 33 home runs over the last 10 years the CWS was played there.
Not only have the bats changed since the CWS was played at Rosenblatt, so has the field orientation. Batters faced the northeast at Rosenblatt and were able to launch flies into the prevailing south wind most days. They face the southeast at TD Ameritrade, meaning they usually hit into the wind.
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Man faces felony vandalism charge after graffiti found on car, fences
A 19-year-old Aptos man was arrested on suspicion of felony vandalism after he was caught tagging fences and a car in Aptos Sunday night, deputies said.
Just before midnight, deputies received a report of someone spray-painting a fence near the intersection of Soquel Drive and Peoples Lane, according to Santa Cruz County sheriff's Sgt. Patrick Dimick.
Deputies saw Alexander Tinaza try to hide a spray-paint can in the bushes and discovered he had paint on his hands that matched that of fresh graffiti just 50 feet away.
Dimick said deputies found a car and several fences on Soquel Drive between Hardin Way and Peoples Lane that had fresh graffiti. The tags matched the symbol in a tattoo Tinaza sported.
Damages were estimated at $2,200, Dimick said.
Tinaza was arrested on suspicion of felony vandalism and transported to Santa Cruz County Jail where he remains in lieu of $5,000 bail.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- The lack of offense, most notably home runs, has been a major topic of conversation among fans and media at the College World Series.
The NCAA has noticed, too, but no immediate changes are planned in an attempt bring up the numbers.
There were three home runs hit in the 14 games, and some have suggested that the fences should be moved in at TD Ameritrade Park.
''All of that costs money, and we would do that why? So there would be a few more home runs? Is it worth it?'' said Damani Leech, the NCAA's director of championships and alliances. ''We've only had three home runs, yet we've had the highest average attendance in the history of the College World Series.''
Leech officially takes over as lead administrator for the CWS on July 1, replacing the retiring Dennis Poppe.
Leech said in an interview Tuesday that the offensive issues at the CWS coincide with the drop in offense throughout all of college baseball since the dialed-back metal bats were put into play in 2011. According to the NCAA's midseason statistics report, the latest data available, the per-team average for home runs was about one every three games. The year before the new bat specifications, the average was about one a game.
Leech noted that there were nine home runs hit at TD Ameritrade Park in its first year, 2011, and there were 10 last year.
''Were folks comfortable with that number?'' Leech said. ''That's the kind of conversation we've got to have, that the baseball committee's got to have. Are we comfortable with the kind of baseball that's being played here at our premier national event?''
The fences at TD Ameritrade Park are 335 feet down the lines, 375 in the power alleys and 408 to center field. Those are identical to the dimensions at the old Rosenblatt Stadium, where there were an average of 33 home runs over the last 10 years the CWS was played there.
Not only have the bats changed since the CWS was played at Rosenblatt, so has the field orientation. Batters faced the northeast at Rosenblatt and were able to launch flies into the prevailing south wind most days. They face the southeast at TD Ameritrade, meaning they usually hit into the wind.
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SCENES TO WATCH 1. A scene from the original Broadway production of Fences at the 1987 Tony Awards by the incredible James Earl Jones. This is a piece of act...
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