Clybourne Park
In 1959 a white couple are about to sell their house in the exclusively white Chicago suburb of Clybourne Park to a Black family, creating a storm of protest from the other residents. Fifty years on, in this now diverse neighbourhood, the same house is being sold by its Black owners to a white family who plan to demolish it and rebuild, in a regentrification process that will ultimately price Black families out of the area again. The times have changed, but are the underlying attitudes really any different?
Inspired by Lorraine Hansbury’s ground-breaking A Raisin in the Sun, Clybourne Park had its UK premiere at the Royal Court in 2011.
By arrangement with Nick Hern Books.
Performed by BA (Hons) Acting working alongside students from the BA (Hons) Theatre Practice.
Cast & Crew
Cast
| Albert | Phillip Olagoke |
|---|---|
| Betsy | Amy Cotter |
| Bev | Ashlynn Majewski |
| Dan | James Crouch |
| Francine | Khadie Fall |
| Jim | Alex McCaragher |
| Karl | Eamon O’Flynn |
| Kathy | Ashlynn Majewski |
| Kenneth | Alex McCaragher |
| Kevin | Phillip Olagoke |
| Lena | Khadie Fall |
| Lindsey | Amy Cotter |
| Russ | James Crouch |
| Steve | Eamon O’Flynn |
| Tom | Alex McCaragher |
Crew | |
| Assistant Director | Dominic Chan |
| Assistant Production Manager | Edward Callow |
| Assistant Production Manager | Eamon Newall
(credited as Amy Newall) |
| Assistant Stage Manager | Meredith Lewis |
| Assistant Stage Manager | Holly Mackenzie |
| Chief Electrician | Dan Heywood |
| Deputy Chief Electrician | Megan Curson |
| Deputy Stage Manager | Liv Hancock |
| Designer | Childe Pendergast |
| Dialect Coach | Rebecca Gausnell |
| Director | Lindsay Posner |
| Lighting Designer | Ebbe Rodtborg Lauritsen |
| Lighting Programmer | Megan Curson |
| Movement Coach | Vanessa Ewan |
| Production Manager | Shaz McGee |
| Production Sound Engineer | Amber Carey |
| Props Buyer | Suzie Dubowski |
| Sound Designer | Ben Grant |
| Sound Operator | Amber Carey |
| Stage Manager | Lisa Pleass |
| Voice Coach | Claudette Williams |
| Wardrobe Supervisor | Tash Prynne |
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Play description
Clybourne Park is a 2010 play by Bruce Norris written as a spin-off to Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun. It portrays fictional events set during and after the Hansberry play, and is loosely based on historical events that took place in the city of Chicago.
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