A.C.T. Two-Show Mini-Subscription: Clybourne Park and The Homecoming
A.C.T., Near the corner of Geary and Mason (415 Geary St. San Francisco, CA 94102)
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The last date listed for A.C.T. Two-Show Mini-Subscription: Clybourne Park and The Homecoming was Sunday January 30, 2011 / 7:00pm (Plus March 13, 2011 at 7:00pm).
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American Conservatory Theater performs a double bill of two outstanding plays from master playwright Samuel Beckett. Endgame and Play are a pair of absurd dark comedies that conjure a fiercely funny and emotionally gripping world. In Endgame, Tony Award winner Bill Irwin takes on the role of Hamm, who is trapped between life and death with his young servant, Clov. Together they engage in a chess match of wits in this vivid exploration of the end of life. This iconic work will be presented together with Beckett's rarely performed one-act Play, a brief comic tour de force about marriage and infidelity, featuring members of A.C.T.'s core acting company. Learn More
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13 Goldstar Member Reviews
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Having been in Chicago during the time of panic selling, the play was so false, the setting,the characters, the dialogue.Written on Feb 09 2011
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peaches
I agree with the comment from tsbohrer that some of the timimg was off in that the laughs from the audience drowned out the next lines. However, this is a not to miss play.Written on Jan 25 2011
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Wonderful performances. Interesting and sadly still topical subject matter (I say still since the play starts in the 1950's.)Written on Jan 21 2011
I wanted to give it 5 stars, but it drags a bit at the beginning of the 2nd act.
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Really interesting issues, great writing, and TERRIFIC acting by A.C.T. core members/grads and Richard Thieriot. Wow! Nice to see "so many" (seven) characters on stage at once too. Get ready for I-can't-believe-they're-saying-it dialogue in Act Two--total LOL.Written on Jan 21 2011
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More Information About A.C.T. Two-Show Mini-Subscription: Clybourne Park and The Homecoming
Description
Don’t miss the first two shows of the new year! A.C.T. presents the West Coast premiere of the internationally acclaimed comedy Clybourne Park, which cleverly spins the events of A Raisin in the Sun to tell an unforgettable new story about race and real estate in America. Next up, a celebration of Nobel Prize–winning playwright Harold Pinter's legacy with his most sexually provocative play, The Homecoming, a vivid drama that chronicles the grueling power struggle that ensues when a long-absent son and his attractive wife return to his contentious childhood home in London's East End.
Clybourne Park: Home is where the heart—and history—is in Clybourne Park, which cleverly spins the events of the incendiary 1959 drama A Raisin in the Sun to reveal fresh perspectives on the politics of race in America. Act I opens in 1959, as a white couple sells their home in a middle-class Chicago neighborhood to a black family, causing uproar in their all-white community. Act II transports us to 2009, when the stakes are different, but the debate is eerily familiar, as negotiations about a white couple's gentrification plans for the house—in what has become a historic black neighborhood—whirl into lightning-quick and uncomfortably revealing repartee. A "buzz-saw sharp new comedy" (The Washington Post) from an adamant provocateur, Clybourne Park stirs up the divisive ghosts of race and class that lurk beneath the contemporary veneer of political correctness.
The Homecoming: A.C.T. celebrates Nobel Prize–winning playwright Harold Pinter's legacy with his most sexually provocative play. A long-absent son and his attractive wife, Ruth, return to his contentious childhood home in London's East End. Caught in a grueling power struggle, father and sons vie for Ruth's attention and affection with outrageous consequences in a play that changed the face of 20th-century drama. Longtime Pinter collaborator and A.C.T. Artistic Director Carey Perloff directs this brilliant classic featuring René Augesen, who celebrates her tenth-anniversary season as part of the A.C.T. core acting company.