Student Theatre Production: Clybourne Park
Building: Academic Building
Room Number: Large Auditorium
Date: Saturday, November 18, 2017
Time: 07:00 pm End Time: 09:00 pm
Event Category: Campus Life Events
Division Host: Campus Life, and Communication, Arts & Humanities
Clybourne Park
Written by Bruce Norris
Directed by Stephen Smith
November 9–11 & 16–18 at 7 p.m.
Large Auditorium | Academic Building | Marple Campus
$10 General Admission | BUY TICKETS NOW
Tickets also available at the door
Synopsis:
Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for Best Play, Clybourne Park is a razor-sharp satire about the politics of race. In response to Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, playwright Bruce Norris set up Clybourne Park as a pair of scenes that bookend Hansberry’s piece. In 1959, Russ and Bev are moving out to the suburbs after the tragic death of their son. Inadvertently, they have sold their house to the neighborhood’s first black family. Fifty years later in 2009, the roles are reversed when a young white couple buys the lot in what is now a predominantly black neighborhood, signaling a new wave of gentrification. In both instances, a community showdown takes place, pitting race against real estate with this home as the battleground. (Source)