Event

Clybourne Park

Clybourne Park was written as a companion piece to A Raisin in the Sun, (recently produced at Kentwood Players). A savagely funny and ferociously smart play that won the 2010 Olivier Award, the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and the 2012 Tony Award for Best Play. Set in Chicago, the play explodes in two biting and satiric act, 50 years apart. Act I takes place in 1959, as nervous white community leaders anxiously try to stop the sale of a middle-class home to a black family. Act II jumps to 2009, in the same house, as the now predominantly African-American neighborhood battles to hold its ground in the face of urban renewal by a Caucasian couple. Each of the seven cast members plays different characters in both acts. This topical, insightful, and relevant play about racial discord and civic engagement contains adult situations and language and is not appropriate for children.