Troy fights with Cory and sends him away. Rose adopts Alberta's baby but freezes Troy out. Six months later, news comes that Alberta has died in childbirth, and Troy resolves to build a fence round his yard to keep death out. In the ensuing quarrel, Troy is about to hit Rose, when Cory intervenes. Troy refuses to let Cory sign with the team and confesses to Rose that he has made his mistress Alberta pregnant. Now he has been made a driver – even though he does not have a licence. He was shot trying to rob a man and was jailed for 15 years. Troy recalls how at 14 he left his family to travel up north, only to find himself without a job or a home. Cory has been selected for a football team and will be able to go to college, but Troy objects, saying that blacks can never prosper in sport. Troy's brother Gabriel suffered a head injury in the Second World War and now believes that he is the Archangel Gabriel. Troy has a son Lyons (34) by his first marriage, a charming wastrel, and is now married to Rose (43), with whom he has one son Cory, who works in a local store and is a keen footballer. Troy has been complaining that only white men are allowed to drive the trucks, while the blacks have to deal with the rubbish. A: August Wilson Pf: 1985, New Haven, Connecticut Pb: 1986 G: Drama in 2 acts S: Yard of the Maxsons' home, US city, 1957, 1965 C: 5m, 1f, 1 child (f)Troy Maxson, a 53-year-old black garbage collector, arrives home from work with his friend Bono.
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