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Grandma's birthday approaches. Beverly is organizing the perfect dinner, but everything seems doomed to go awry--the silverware is all wrong, the radio is on the fritz, and the rest of the family can't be bothered to lift a hand to help. And yet, what appears at first to be a standard family dramedy takes a sharp, sly turn into a startling examination of deep-seated paradigms about race in America.
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Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
"Dazzling and ruthless...One of the most exquisitely and systematically arranged ambushes of an unsuspecting audience in years...A glorious, scary reminder of the unmatched power of live theater to rattle, roil and shake us wide awake." --Ben Brantley, New York Times
Grandma's birthday approaches. Beverly is organizing the perfect dinner, but everything seems doomed from the start: the silverware is all wrong, the radio is on the fritz, and the rest of the family can't be bothered to help. What at first appears to be a comedic family comedy takes a sharp, sly turn into a startling examination of deep-seated paradigms about race in America.
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Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Winner of the 2019 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Fairview had its world premiere at Soho Rep (Off-Broadway) in the Spring of 2018. Fairview will have another New York run in June 2019 at Theatre for a New Audience in Brooklyn. Jackie Sibblies Drury is also the author of Really, Social Creatures, and We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915. Really was published in the September 2016 issue of American Theatre magazine Drury is a Brooklyn based playwright and her plays have been presented on Off-broadway stages and developed at Sundance, The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Arts Nova, among others. For her work she has received: The 2015 Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama, The 2012-2013 Van Lier Fellowship at New Dramatists She was the inaugural recipient of the the 2012-2014 Jerome Fellowship at The Lark She is a 2015 United States Artist Gracie Fellow and NYTW Usual Suspect
--Helen Shaw "Village Voice"