Clybourne Park
Audio Described performance: Saturday, February 27 @ 7:30pm. Reservations must be made by Thursday, February 25 to ensure availability of eq
320 5th Avenue SE Osseo
MN 55369
United States
Lavender Magazine's Theater Artist of the Year Craig Johnson directs Yellow Tree Theatre's Clybourne Park--the hilarious and emotionally raw Pulitzer Prize winner that takes a jab at race and real estate in a Chicago neighborhood. Named after the fictional white neighborhood in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, the play takes place in both 1959 and 2009 with a cast of eight playing two sets of characters. In Act One playwright Bruce Norris picks up where Raisin left off, with a black family from Chicago’s South Side moving into a predominately white suburb—linking two plays that were written decades apart. Act Two takes the audience to the present day--this time with a white family seeking to buy that same house in a neighborhood which has now become predominately black. Thematically, gentrification and race relations comprise the meaty backbone of the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning script. But not to be overlooked is the heartbreak and emotional tragedy simmering underneath the razor sharp wit, making this award-winning play more about humanity than anything else.
Cast & Crew
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Laura Esping
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Patrick Coyle
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Ricardo Beaird
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