High School theater brings 'Clybourne Park' to stage
by Catherine Coke, High School theater teacher
Students will present the spin-off to "A Raisin in the Sun" in February.
Students will present the spin-off to "A Raisin in the Sun" in February.
We are very excited to present Bruce Norris’ “Clybourne Park” as the 2017 High School Winter Production. The cast includes Alex Bahner ’17, Patrick Chickey ’17, Isaiah Frank ’17, George LaBour ’17, Alice May ’17, Ben Maloy ’18, Avery Sweet ’19, and Morgan Lewis ’20.
“Clybourne Park” premiered in 2010 at Playwrights Horizon in New York City and opened on Broadway in 2012. It went on to win the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2012 Tony Award for Best Play.
It is the spin-off to Lorraine Hansberry’s ground-breaking 1959 play “A Raisin in the Sun.” Her play tells the mid-century story of a black family in Chicago as they attempt to improve their lives, with one of their goals being to move to a better neighborhood, one that happens to be all white. “A Raisin in the Sun” won the New York Drama Critics Award for Best Play in 1959. The original production featured Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Louis Gossett, Claudia McNeil, and Diana Sands with Ossie Davis joining the cast later. The play has seen many productions worldwide including the 2004 Broadway revival with Sean Combs, Audra McDonald, and Phylicia Rashad; it was turned into a musical in 1973; and, it has been adapted to film in 1961 with Sidney Poitier, in 1989 with Danny Glover and Esther Rolle, and again in 2008 with Sean Combs and Audra McDonald.
The first act of “Clybourne Park” tells the story of the white couple who sells the house to the black family in 1959. The second act is set 50 years later in the same house, as it is being sold again. Told with both humor and seriousness by a cast of engaging, multi-faceted characters, the issues of race, housing, and explicit and implicit bias are the foci of this drama.
Performances are 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8; 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9; 7 p.m. Friday, Feb.10; and, 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11. Tickets are free for students, faculty, staff, Tiger Arts Patrons members and $5 for the general public.
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