Clybourne Park: A Play (Tony Award Best Play)
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (519 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0865478686 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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“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
Other plays include The Infidel, Purple Heart, We All Went Down to Amsterdam, The Pain and the Itch, and The Unmentionables, all of which premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre. He currently resides in New York.. Bruce Norris is a writer and an actor whose Pulitzer Prize– and Olivier Award–winning play Clybourne Park premiered at Playwrights Horizons in January 2010. Norris is the recipient of the 2009 Stein
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. Clybourne Park spans two generations fifty years apart. 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.Clybourne Park is the winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and the winner of the 2012 Tony Award for Best Play.. 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
"Deserving of Widespread Productions" according to B. Silverberg. First of all, let me say that I'm glad to have purchased this book when it was selling at a price far more reasonable than the one it is being sold for at this writing. Apparently, the only edition currently available is the one published by the Royal Court Theatre in London, even though the play -- by a Chicago-based playwright -- was produced earlier by Playwrights Horizon in New York, where I was fortunate to have seen it last March. Reading the play reminded me of how enjoyable it was to have seen, as im. Passage of time I like plays when there is a lapse of generations or decades between the first and second acts, like Cloud Nine and (in another way) Arcadia and various others. Clybourne Park does this extremely well, showing us racial and housing situations in Chicago with a gap of 50 years. Plays like this show is that every age thinks it is on top of it all, aware and understanding, when in fact we always live without awareness of what will come and our cleverness is sure to be surpassed by the future's own arrogance tow. A powerhouse of a play. This play, which rocked Broadway, is based on the premise that some A powerhouse of a play. Avery Gordon This play, which rocked Broadway, is based on the premise that some 45-50 years after the end of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin In The Sun," the neighborhood, which is now predominantly African American due to "Raisin's" family moving into an all-white neighborhood that tried everything to keep them out, is facing a drastic change. What we see here is several couples, only one African American couple, are having a meeting about "upgrading" the neighborhood to modern, expensive properties. But many secrets ar. 5-50 years after the end of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin In The Sun," the neighborhood, which is now predominantly African American due to "Raisin's" family moving into an all-white neighborhood that tried everything to keep them out, is facing a drastic change. What we see here is several couples, only one African American couple, are having a meeting about "upgrading" the neighborhood to modern, expensive properties. But many secrets ar