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FAIRVIEW

FAIRVIEW synopsis
(from Dramatists Play Service website) At the Frasier household, preparations for Grandmas birthday party are underway. Beverly is holding on to her sanity by a thread to make sure this party is perfect, but her sister cant be bothered to help, her husband doesnt seem to listen, her brother is MIA, her daughter is a teenager, and maybe nothing is what it seems in the first place! FAIRVIEW is a searing examination of families, drama, family dramas, and the insidiousness of white supremacy.
Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize. dazzling and ruthlessone of the most exquisitely and systematically arranged ambushes of an unsuspecting audience in yearsFAIRVIEW is a series of perspective-altering surprises, and they keep coming at you even when you think [Drury] must surely have emptied [her] bag of tricksa glorious, scary reminder of the unmatched power of live theater to rattle, roil and shake us wide awake. The New York Times. [an] outstanding, frustrating, hilarious, and sui generis playFrom moment to moment, Drury disturbed and frustrated and entertained us and made us wonder what we were all doing in that room, watching black actors perform being human. New Yorker. [a] vehement, searching, fourth-wall-demolishing [play]under a playful surface, [FAIRVIEW] is strenuous and scalpel-sharp and working its way through deep rage[its] rare and intimidating, unresolved and raw. It left me with the blood pounding in my earsNew York Magazine.

Jackie Sibbiles Drury - playwright
(From Dramatists Play Service website) Plays include MARYS SEACOLE (Obie Award); FAIRVIEW (2019 Pulitzer Prize);REALLY;SOCIAL CREATURES; andWE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT A PRESENTATION ABOUT THE HERERO OF NAMIBIA, FORMERLY KNOWN AS SOUTHWEST AFRICA, FROM THE GERMAN SUDWESTAFRIKA, BETWEEN THE YEARS 18841915.The presenters of her plays include Lincoln Center Theater, Soho Rep., Berkeley Rep, New York City Players & Abrons Arts Center, Victory Gardens, Trinity Rep, Woolly Mammoth, Undermain Theatre, InterAct Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Company One, and Bush Theatre. Drury has developed her work at Sundance, the Bellagio Center, The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, the Soho Rep. Writer/Director LAB, New York Theatre Workshop, the Bushwick Starr, The Lark, and The MacDowell Colony, among others. She has received the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, a Jerome Fellowship at The Lark, a United States Artists Fellowship, a Helen Merrill Playwriting Award, anda WindhamCampbell Literary Prize in Drama.