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Fairview (play)

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Jimbo. The white actor who played Mack appears as Erika. A second, jazzier version of the grandmother appears, played by the same white actress who played Bets. While all of the white actors enter the play as Black characters, Keisha becomes more and more uncomfortable as white people are trying to fit into Black misfortune. The play ends with Keisha breaking the fourth wall and speaking to the audience about how Black people need to tell their own stories and how white people need to participate as listeners.
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woman, questions the concept of race. Suze, who was raised by a Black woman, says that she would choose to be African-American because she holds a lot of empathy for them. As the white characters begin to argue, Beverly faints in the background action. The white characters continue their conversation as the audience sees the Black characters engage in action that continues where act one left off. As the act ends, the white characters disappear.
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The actions of the Black characters are continued in act three as Beverly’s mother enters the scene, played by the same white woman who played Suze in act two. Keisha is notably uncomfortable as her grandmother is played by a white woman. Tyrone then appears, played by the same white actor who played
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The play begins with an African American woman, Beverly, setting up a birthday party for her mother in an upper-middle class house. Her family slowly joins her onstage, including her husband Dayton, her sister Jasmine, and her daughter Keisha. Beverly receives a phone call from her brother, Tyrone,
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Act two has the Black actors mimic the same actions on the set from act one as a group of white characters commentate on race. Two of the white people, Jimbo and Mack, discuss which race they would be if they were not white and are challenged by a third white character, Suze. Bets, another white
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telling her that he cannot come to the birthday party. Beverly becomes so upset with things going crazy and family conflict that occurs that she faints.
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starting on June 2, 2019, directed by Sarah Benson and choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly. The play's run was extended from June 30 to July 28.
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family as they prepare for a birthday dinner for their grandmother only to be watched by four white people.
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from November 28, 2019 to January 18, 2020. The production was directed by Nadia Latif.
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The play was produced at Polonsky Shakespeare Center, Brooklyn, New York by
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Index

Jackie Sibblies Drury
Soho Repertory Theatre
Jackie Sibblies Drury
middle class
African-American
Off-Broadway
Soho Repertory Theatre
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Sarah Benson
Raja Feather Kelly
Theatre for a New Audience
Young Vic
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Drama Desk Awards
Get Out
Jordan Peele


"Review: Playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury daringly deconstructs the theater of black identity in 'Fairview' at Berkeley Rep"
"The Pulitzer-Winning Play 'Fairview' Is About Being Watched While Black"
NPR
"Fairview review – a daring challenge to the white gaze"
"Fairview: the Pulitzer winner whose creator hopes it has a short shelf life"



Fairview Summary
"Jackie Sibblies Drury's Acclaimed Fairview Extends Again at Soho Rep"
"Fairview to Return Off-Broadway"
"Fairview"

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