Neighbors
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 16, 2010
Closed Mar 7, 2010
Opened Feb 16, 2010
Closed Mar 7, 2010
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Have you seen the new neighbors? Richard Patterson is not happy. The family of black actors that has moved in next door is loud, tacky, shameless, and uncouth. And they are not just infiltrating his neighborhood--they threaten his reputation, his family, and his comfortably progressive lifestyle. This wildly theatrical, explosive play on race marks the major debut of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, a member of the Public's Emerging Writers Group.
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WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
What are other members saying?
RE:Post racial ? Who me ?
This is a hilariously probing look at the persistence of race as an issue writ large in our lives. It needs some serious trimming its a work-in-progress, but if theyre judiciously made theres five-star potential here. On the whole brilliantly acted, btw.
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on Tuesday, Mar 2nd, 2010
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The arrival of an African-American family in an affluent neighborhood in a college town has some decidedly unexpected effects in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' audacious, often hilarious, and sometimes strained,
Neighbors, playing at the Public Theater.
Directed with zest by Niegel Smith and performed with tenacity and fearlessness by the ensemble, the play focuses on classics professor Richard (played with deliberate ferocity by Chris McKinney), who is particularly disturbed when he sees the Crow family moving in. Though African-American himself, he mutters the N-word as he watches the larger-than-life family unpack through the window of his ultra-chic kitchen (seen side by side with the Crow[...]