Clybourne Park Play Summary

Clybourne park play was held at Broward College Bailey Hall Theatre, I must say it was a really interesting play in the beginning (act 1) I really enjoyed act one, it gives comedy and race subject matters. The play has its moments of high intensity and its low intensity where you get bored, but also with much drama to make you wonder. The play begins in the 50s, which was the era of the civil rights movement. The play starts out with a married couple Russ and Bev who is still broken hearted from the loss of their son and they are preparing to move out of their home pretty soon. So the play takes a jump into a conversation after Bev invites Karl over to try to talk to Russ. The play gets funny when Karl comes over and explain to Russ and Bev that the house was sold to a black family. Karl was like a civic leader and he wanted no black family living in a white neighborhood. Karl is actually my favorite character in the play as he goes on and on about why they shouldn't let a black family move into the neighborhood. The neighborhood in the 50s was for the middle class white folks, which had black maids.
The different characters have there on depth in the play, and they have their own battles to deal with, changing racial attitudes in America was something I really learned from the play. Russ is more the protagonist in the play, he and Bev are the married couple who is moving out the neighborhood and Karl is the antagonist he's totally against a black family moving into the community of Clybourne Park. The language was vernacular, it was everyday language .Everyone is rambling speaking over one another in act 2 which I was not pleased with, act 1 was stronger to make this play great as it already