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Clybourne Park

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Binding: Paperback
List Price: $16.00
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ISBN: 9780865478688
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Language: English
Page Count: 210
Publication Date: 8/16/2011
Size: 8.30" l x 5.50" w x 0.71"
Series: N/A

Category Subject
Drama General

The 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner for best drama imagines the tangled back stories and racially charged real-estate negotiations surrounding the events of Lorraine Hansberry's classic play A Raisin in the Sun

Clybourne Park spans two generations fifty years apart. In 1959, Russ and Bev are selling their desirable two-bedroom at a bargain price, unknowingly bringing the first black family into the neighborhood (borrowing a plot line from Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun ) and creating ripples of discontent among the cozy white residents of Clybourne Park. In 2009, the same property is being bought by a young white couple, whose plan to raze the house and start again is met with equal disapproval by the black residents of the soon-to-be-gentrified area. Are the issues festering beneath the floorboards actually the same, fifty years on? Bruce Norris's excruciatingly funny and squirm-inducing satire explores the fault line between race and property. Clybourne Park is the winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and the winner of the 2012 Tony Award for Best Play.

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