Play on Housing Integration and related Racial Conflicts (at a DC theater)

Play that might be of interest to those who are in DC or traveling to DC:

Clybourne Park at Woolly Mamouth Theater.  Summary here:

Clybourne Park explores the evolution of racism and gentrification over the past half-century in America by imagining the conflicts surrounding the purchase of a house in a white neighborhood in the 1959 by an African American family, and then the re-design of that house in “post-racial” 2009. While Clybourne Park is an actual neighborhood in Chicago, the play makes no direct reference to its geography. Woolly believes Clybourne Park is highly reflective of the changes happening to neighborhoods throughout DC and across the metropolitan area (and urban America).

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