Clybourne Park

Clybourne Park

by Bruce Norris
Clybourne Park

Clybourne Park

by Bruce Norris

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Overview

Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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…


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780822226970
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Incorporated
Publication date: 01/28/2013
Pages: 88
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

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. 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. Norris is the recipient of the 2009 Steinberg Playwright Award and the Whiting Foundation Prize for Drama. He currently resides in New York.

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