Press Democrat: “6th Street Playhouse opens Pulitzer Prize-winning play ‘Fences’”
Fences
OPENS January 12, 2024
The show is relevant today in that it deals with universal themes,” said the play’s director.
Jourdan Olivier-Verdé of Oakland is no stranger to Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse.
He played the wrongly accused Tom Robinson in “To Kill a Mockingbird” there and performed in the ’60s rock musical “Hair.”
Now he’s back, but not onstage. He’s directing the theater’s production of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Fences” by August Wilson, opening Jan. 12.
The director drew from a wide area to recruit his seven-member cast for this show, pulling in talent from San Francisco, Oakland and Vallejo.
“And there were others from 6th Street that I worked with there,” he added.
The drama about a Black family living in segregated Pittsburgh in 1957 centers on Troy Maxson, a former star of the Negro Baseball League who labors as a sanitation worker.