'Clybourne Park' Southeast Premiere Of Award Winning Comedy

Caldwell Theatre Company Presents Laughs and Debate

with Southeast Premiere of Award-Winning Clybourne Park 

Fresh from winning the Evening Standard Award as Best New Play in London and its inclusion in the New York Times 10 Best Productions of the New York 2010 Theater season; Caldwell Theatre Company presents Bruce Norris's funny provocative play, Clybourne Park. 

"This was the icing on the cake for me, of what was already an extraordinary season," said Clive Cholerton, Artistic Director of Caldwell Theatre Company and director of Clybourne Park. "It is as fine a play as has been written in the past 15 years and will most certainly claim a place in the lexicon of American theater history."

The new comedy acts as a precursor to the events of A Raisin in the Sun to tell an unforgettable new story about race and real estate in America. Act I opens in 1959, as a white couple sells their home to an African American family (the same home and same African American family as the subject matter for Loraine Hansberry's groundbreaking drama), causing uproar in their middle-class Chicago neighborhood. Act II transports us to the same house in 2009, when the stakes are different, but the debate is strikingly familiar. Amid lightning-quick repartee, the characters scramble for control of the situation, revealing how possibly the language has changed, but the conversation has remained eerily the same.

The cast of Clybourne Park, all of whom play dual roles in the first and second act of the comedy, is comprised of a Who's Who of South Florida Carbonnell winners and nominees. Cliff Burgess,
Brian D. Coats, Patti Gardner, Kenneth Kay, Margery Lowe, Karen Stephens, Gregg Weiner and Andrew Wind compose as solid an ensemble as you will find on any South Florida Stage. Stated Cholerton, "A play such as this, really highlights the depth and breadth of talent we possess in South Florida as it demands versatility from its actors with its double casting. Our actors are given so many opportunities to expand their range and we really leverage that skill set in this production."

The design team of Clybourne Park includes: Tim Bennett, scenic design; Thomas M. Shorrock, lighting design; Alberto Arroyo, costume design; Deborah Veres, properties design and Dustin Hamilton, sound design.

In trying to describe what an audience might experience with Clybourne Park, Cholerton goes on to say, "It is almost a modern day All in the Family, in that it is absolutely hilarious but at the same time filled with insight and dramatic tension."

January 2 - February 6, 2011

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