Get Tickets Now for “Clybourne Park”

Mammoth Lakes Repertory Theatre
presents
CLYBOURNE PARK

CLYBOURNE PARK

written by Bruce Norris

Nov. 14-23 Fri. & Sat. at 7pm Sundays at 4pm

Location: Mammoth High School MPR

365 Sierra Park Rd.

A Pulitzer Prize & Tony Award Winning Play. A razor-sharp satire about the politics of race – inspired by the play A Raisin In The Sun

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Gen Adm – $20 / Seniors 65 and older $18 / High School Students $15

Tickets purchased at the door $25 no discounts

Want to know more about the playwright whose Raisin in the Sun inspired Clybourne Park?

Click here to see the episode of Basic Black from GHB News about Lorraine Hansberry and the documentary about her life.

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This episode of Basic Black on GHB News they discuss legendary playwright Lorraine Hansberry, who wrote A Raisin in the Sun, along with panelists Lisa Simmons, director of the Roxbury International Film Festival; Tracy Heather Strain, producer of ‘Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart,’ a documentary about Hansberry; Kim McLarin, associate professor at Emerson College; and Michael Jeffries, associate professor at Wellesley College.

A very interesting discussion that makes you want to immediately watch the Documentary ‘Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart’ which is available on Amazon Prime

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Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Clybourne Park was written in response to Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun. Playwright Bruce Norris set up Clybourne Park as a pair of scenes that bookend Hansberry’s piece. These two scenes, fifty years apart, are both set in the same modest bungalow on Chicago’s northwest side that features at the center of A Raisin in the Sun. The first scene takes place before and the second scene takes place after the events of A Raisin in the Sun.

In 1959, Russ and Bev are moving out to the suburbs after the tragic death of their son. Inadvertently, they sold their house to the neighborhood’s first black family. Fifty years later in 2009, the roles are reversed when a young white couple buys the lot in what is now a predominantly black neighborhood, signaling a new wave of gentrification. In both instances, a community showdown takes place, pitting race against real estate with this home as the battleground.

News Staff