Clybourne Park

Clybourne Park

February 3, 2023 — February 5, 2023

Digital Program
  • Synopsis
  • Cast & Crew
  • Production Team
  • Show Dates & Info

PLAY

Clybourne Park explodes in two outrageous acts set fifty years apart. Act One takes place in 1959, as nervous community leaders anxiously try to stop the sale of a home to a black family. Act Two is set in the same house in the present day, as the now predominantly African-American neighborhood battles to hold its ground in the face of gentrification.

“Bruce Norris’s superb, elegantly written, and hilarious new play, is set at 406 Clybourne Park, the address of the modest bungalow in a white Chicago neighborhood, where the Youngers, a striving black family, were headed, in 1959, at the end of Lorraine Hansberry’s ‘A Raisin in the Sun.’ We meet the white couple who sold the house to the Youngers, and by degrees, we learn of the tragic circumstances that led them to sell at such a knockdown price. In 2009, when the second act takes place, incoming whites, with their architectural plans for expanding the area’s bungalows – which are now monuments to black struggle and advancement – threaten the black neighborhood. Norris, who is also an actor, turns the characters’ dance of civility into a fracas of fulmination. the orchestration is a kind of master class in comic writing and playing.” -The New Yorker

CAST

Russ/Dan – Daniel Coyne
Bev/Kathy – Lisa Marie Parker
Francine/Lena – Krista Roberson*
Albert/Kevin – TBD
Jim/Tom/Kenneth – Scott Holmgren*
Karl/Steve – Mitch Voss
Betsy/Lindsey – Nora Hauk*

*Civic onstage debut

CREW

  • Light Board Operator – Elvin E. East
  • A1 Operator – Dixie Edwards
  • Playback Operator – Brian Magnuson

Floor/Fly Crew
Elia Ingerham
Elijah Kaeding

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

  • AVB – Donation of wood cable spool
  • Misti Ryefield – American Sign Language Teacher
  • Mary Redmon – War Medals

ADOPT A SHOW BOARD MEMBER

Rhasheda Shepherd
Maggie Zahrai

Director – Mary Redmon
Scenic Designer – Justin Muse
Costume Designer – Elaine Kaufman
Lighting Designer – George Townsend
Sound Designer – Jacob Myny
Photographer – Katherine Mumma
Technical Director – Phillip A. Miller
Properties Master – Stacy Bartell
Production Stage Manager – Stacey Jaeger
Stage Manager – Gari Voss
Assistant Stage Manager – Torri Jo Mitchell
Rehearsal Assistant Stage Manager – Gwen Stephan
Director of Volunteers – Mike Artis
Executive Director – Laura M. Zervic
Dramaturg – Dr. Quincy Thomas
Scenic Carpenters – Christopher Lewis, Ryan Burke and Jacob Miller
Charge Painter – Justin Muse
Scenic Artists – Angela Mammel and David Kyhn
Properties Artisan – Ian Whistler

Friday, February 3, 2023 at 7:30pm
Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 7:30pm – ASL Interpretation & Audio Description available for this performance
Sunday, February 5, 2023 at 2:00pm