Best Play, Evening Standard Awards 2010
Best New Play, Critics Circle Awards 2010
Best New Play, Olivier Awards 2011
An acerbically brilliant satire that explores the fault line between race and property in a Chicago neighborhood first in 1959 and revisited in 2009.
In 1959, Russ and Bev are selling their desirable two-bed for a knock-down price, enabling the first black family to move into the neighbourhood and alarming the cosy white urbanites of Clybourne Park, Chicago.
In 2009 the same property is being bought by Lindsey and Steve, a young white couple, whose plan to raze the house and start again is met with a similar response. As the arguments rage and tensions rise, ghosts and racial resentments are once more uncovered…
Best Play, Evening Standard Awards 2010
Best New Play, Critics Circle Awards 2010
Best New Play, Olivier Awards 2011
An acerbically brilliant satire that explores the fault line between race and property in a Chicago neighborhood first in 1959 and revisited in 2009.
In 1959, Russ and Bev are selling their desirable two-bed for a knock-down price, enabling the first black family to move into the neighbourhood and alarming the cosy white urbanites of Clybourne Park, Chicago.
In 2009 the same property is being bought by Lindsey and Steve, a young white couple, whose plan to raze the house and start again is met with a similar response. As the arguments rage and tensions rise, ghosts and racial resentments are once more uncovered…
Clybourne Park
88
Clybourne Park
88
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780822226970 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Dramatists Play Service, Incorporated |
| Publication date: | 01/28/2013 |
| Pages: | 88 |
| Sales rank: | 543,315 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.10(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.30(d) |