Funding for the commission and development of Fairview was provided, in part, by the Laurents / Hatcher Foundation, Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation, Table 20 Productions, Venturous Theater Fund, the Vilcek Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts.
“People need to be uncomfortable and they need to be shook a little bit,” she said.She’s been shaken, too. And so I feel like a lot of really interesting pieces were written in response to the play, which I find gratifying ... because the play tries to point to whiteness not as the norm, or not as invisible, but as a particular vantage that that can be damaging to other races. “I’ve seen people respond to a desire to shift their perspective in an incredibly enthusiastic way to the point that it’s offended other people in the audience,” Ms. Drury said.Every performance demands new choices, new improvisations. Fairview is a great play and well deserving of a Pulitzer. She spent a recent night off at “Fairview” seems like the kind of play that would offer talkbacks, but Soho Rep just underwent So that early dinner at Añejo was probably the closest thing to a talkback that Ms. Drury would engage in.The Añejo party included both Ms. Drury’s mother, Pat Sibblies, who is black, and her mother-in-law, Eleanor Drury, who is white. (Ms. Benson was out of the country and unavailable for an interview. The piece went “through all these different ideas about different ways to have an audience aware of being watched and watching other people and making judgments,” Ms. Drury said.During spring rehearsals there were many hypothetical conversations about how audiences might respond to the piece and what the actors should do in volatile situations. Like, some people have left because they've come in expecting to see a very serious play about very capital-S serious issues, and then they're presented with a light-hearted comedy [before the play turns], and they think it's not for them and they leave right away.
That, too. Act One tells an African American story.
"As for the initial idea, she says that came out of a personal experience with police surveillance while living with her husband, an anthropologist, in a contested region of North Africa. “Fairview” seems like the kind of play that would offer talkbacks, but Soho Rep just underwent a pricey renovation to bring it up to code, and talkbacks require more … It rips up that social contract, suggesting that spectatorship might not always be innocent or passive or nice. “A lot of people who have been upset by it have also intellectually engaged with it and I don’t know that being upset is wrong,” she said.Reactions vary widely not only from one performance to another but also within the same performance, which can be jarring.
She had never done a play like this. There have been complaints — on Twitter, on That’s O.K.
Neither had anyone else in the room. To say much more would be a spoiler, but the banality of it all does become central to the play's final (and deeply uncomfortable) punch.That concept came out of conversations with director Sarah Benson, Sibblies Drury says. As she stepped into “Fairview” begins as an easygoing comedy about a middle-class black family gathering for a birthday dinner and ends somewhere else entirely. Julieta Cervantes/Soho Rep "And this idea of being watched by someone as a person of color — there is automatically some sort of sense of suspicion, especially if the watcher is a white person.
Playscripts, Inc. 7 Penn Plaza Suite 904 New York, NY 10001. These are not spoiler alerts. And then I think that some people also leave because sometimes characters in the play say things that they find offensive, and rather than sitting and asking themselves why the characters are saying things that are offensive, they are simply offended, shut down and leave.
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