Clybourne Park (Acting Edition for Theater Productions) - Softcover

Norris, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822226979 ISBN 13: 9780822226970

Publisher: Dramatists Play Services Inc,US, 2013

Synopsis

Clybourne Park is Bruce Norris's acerbically brilliant follow-up to his earlier hit, The Pain and the Itch. It's 1959. Russ and Bev are moving out of their desirable house in Clybourne Park. Their neighbours are alarmed because they have sold it to a black family. As the arguments rage and tensions rise, the real reason comes seeping to the surface... 50 years later, a young white couple are moving in to the same house, which has grown shabby over the years. At a meeting to discuss their planned improvements, the same but different racial resentments are once more uncovered.

About this title

Review:

An achingly intelligent study of middle-class hypocrisy. It's the funniest new play of the year. --Evening Standard

Not since the British premiere of David Mamet's Oleanna in 1993 has a play at the Royal Court set the audience on such a roar as Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park. There are moments when the mixture of laughter and disbelief among the audience, whose liberal pieties are challenged throughout, prove every bit as exciting as what's happening on stage. --Daily Telegraph

Thought-provoking, squirm-inducing and riotously funny...it reminds you of why you go to the theatre. --West End Whingers.com

About the Author:

Bruce Norris is an actor and writer whose plays include The Infidel (2000), Purple Heart (2002), We All Went Down to Amsterdam (2003), The Pain and the Itch (2004) and The Unmentionables (2006) all of which had their premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dramatists Play Services Inc,US
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0822226979
• ISBN 13: 9780822226970
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88