Fences review – August Wilson’s classic family drama is as smart as paint
Leeds PlayhouseDaniel Bailey’s dynamic production fizzes with jazz and moments of possibility amid taut scenes of thwarted ambition and harsh realities in 1950s AmericaFive years on from their excellent production of Jitney, Leeds Playhouse and Headlong return to August Wilson’s Pittsburgh cycle of plays with a revival of his 1985 classic Fences. It’s another drama of family, masculinity and thwarted ambitions,…