Finished: Clybourne Park (Norris). Pulitzer Prize winning and Tony Award winning play about two different groups of people who interact in the same house fifty years apart. Act One takes place in 1959 and centers around a 40ish white couple who lost their son in the Korean War and is selling their house in their white neighborhood to move to another job. The couple has an African American maid whose husband comes to pick her up right when neighbors/friends have descended upon the selling couple to let them know that :::gasp::: a black family has bought their house and that simply will not do. All manner of fast-paced conversation takes place between the seven characters with nothing resolved for sure except the couple is moving and the house has been sold. Act Two takes place fifty years later in the same house and this time black and white neighbors have gathered (played by the same actors in different roles) to discuss the proposed teardown of the house and look at the neighborhood bylaws in regards to the gaudy plans that one white couple has for building a huge new house there. We find out the female half of the black couple present is related to the people who bought the house fifty years ago and feels like the house should be keep intact for historical significance. Much banter ensues, polite at first but with racial undertones, with one white guy being the obnoxious "black joke" telling guy. Things deteriorate and there's never really any resolution. The play is just a smartly written, fast-paced, true to every day conversation, racially contemplative gem. I would love to have seen it on the stage! It also just so happens to be written by a high school mate of my brother's who shared the stage with him in a few productions at our dear old Alma Mater in Houston. :-)