Fences
Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival opening performance, February 23, 2008 Fences by August Wilson The opening of Fences revealed a shaky story shakily told. I assume that it’s the script which has inconsistencies and false starts that Oregon Shakespeare merely brought forward. Certainly this production didn’t weave together a clear or consistent or entertaining storyline from whatever August Wilson wrote. To begin, various cast members stumbled over lines at least a half dozen times. Blowing lines in an obvious way is my personal pet peeve; it always jars me out of the moment. And, these Fences characters had [...]