Clybourne Park

Main Street Playhouse, Miami

About the Show

This 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning play is the sequel to the famous play, A Raisin in the Sun, and deals with the issues of race and housing. It begins in 1959 as a middle-aged white couple is selling their home to escape the place where their Korean War veteran son killed himself. When they agree to sell the home to a black couple, it creates tension with their white neighbors. Fast forward to 2009: the neighborhood of Clybourne Park has undergone many changes including increased property values and gentrification, and now a white couple wants to buy the home from a black family that has owned it for the past 50 years.