Clybourne Park
A Play
ISBN10: 0865478686
ISBN13: 9780865478688
Trade Paperback
224 Pages
$18.00
CA$24.00
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Clybourne Park spans two generations fifty years apart. In 1959, Russ and Bev are selling their desirable two-bedroom at a bargain price, unknowingly bringing the first black family into the neighborhood (borrowing a plot line from Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun) and creating ripples of discontent among the cozy white residents of Clybourne Park. In 2009, the same property is being bought by a young white couple, whose plan to raze the house and start again is met with equal disapproval by the black residents of the soon-to-be-gentrified area. Are the issues festering beneath the floorboards actually the same, fifty years on? Bruce Norris's excruciatingly funny and squirm-inducing satire explores the fault line between race and property.
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Praise for Clybourne Park
"A spiky and damningly insightful new comedy."—Ben Brantley, The New York Times
"Superb, elegantly written, and hilarious."—John Lahr, The New Yorker
"Courageous . . . Norris's elegantly structured play nails marital tensions as much as it does racial disharmony in an evening of ebullient provocation."—Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
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Clybourne Park
CHARACTERS
ACT I (1959)
ACT II (2009)
Note: In the original production, the actor playing Jim and Tom also played the role of Kenneth. In some subsequent productions a separate actor was hired to play...