FENCES

Joburg Theatre plays to an increasingly diverse audience and we acknowledge the importance of Black History Month each year with a relevant musical production. It is an honour for us to present FENCES by August Wilson on the Mandela stage in 2023.
FENCES is set in a time when much of the black community felt caught between a violent and oppressive past and the possibility of a brighter future and explores the evolving African-American experience and examines race relations, among other themes. These themes resonate with what South Africa has gone through during the apartheid era, into democracy in 1994 and celebrated over the years.