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Clybourne Park
Sep. 26th, 2022 09:35 amYesterday was my birthday. Due to isolation requirements from my recent bout with COVID-19, I ended up spending it at College of DuPage, attending the Buffalo Theatre Ensemble's production of Clybourne Park. If you're local to Chicago, I highly recommend you attend before the run is over.
The play is in two acts and has six actors portraying 13 roles. Act 1 is set in 1959, and tells the tale of how the white-owned house in the play "A Raisin in the Sun" came to be sold to a black family. It's a powerful act, dealing with among other things PTSD of a Korean War veteran.
Act 2 is set in 2009 in the same house, which is now slated to be torn down as part of gentrification of the same neighborhood. The conflict is powerful and not just racially-based. I was also quite fascinated with the mechanics of having the same actors play different characters, and the hidden interrelationships between those characters. (The play, after all, won a Tony and a Pulitzer.)
Overall, an interesting way to spend an afternoon.
The play is in two acts and has six actors portraying 13 roles. Act 1 is set in 1959, and tells the tale of how the white-owned house in the play "A Raisin in the Sun" came to be sold to a black family. It's a powerful act, dealing with among other things PTSD of a Korean War veteran.
Act 2 is set in 2009 in the same house, which is now slated to be torn down as part of gentrification of the same neighborhood. The conflict is powerful and not just racially-based. I was also quite fascinated with the mechanics of having the same actors play different characters, and the hidden interrelationships between those characters. (The play, after all, won a Tony and a Pulitzer.)
Overall, an interesting way to spend an afternoon.
