Threshold Stage Company Presents the Seacoast Premiere CLYBOURNE PARK

What if your house's walls really could talk? Would you want your friends and neighbors to hear what your home has to say? Threshold Stage Company's Seacoast Premiere of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and 2012 Tony Award winning play "Clybourne Park" by Bruce Norris, gives center stage to one such home as it hysterically shares the stories of two couples, separated by fifty years' time, attempting to buy and sell the house while navigating a politically correct mine field of societal inclusion and exclusion along the way.

With "Clybourne Park", Threshold Stage's co-founders Heather Glenn Wixson and Peter Motson continue to build upon their burgeoning success at providing the Seacoast with innovatively staged, professional, and thought provoking theatre. Inspired by Lorraine Hansberry's iconic play "Raisin in the Sun", "Clybourne Park" is a smart, sharp witted and perfectly timed acerbic comedy hilariously evoking the spirit of classic sit-coms such as "All in the Family" and the "Jefferson's". Director Jim Murphy, a former Directing Fellow at Washington's prestigious Kennedy Center, beautifully and succinctly describes "Clybourne Park" as a "deceptively simple comedy, in which middle-class manners and restraint slowly stew and boil in a universal sauce of land, race, history and dispossession." Set and lighting designer Quentin Stockwell masterfully captures Jim's vision of the house as a living and breathing character; creating the structural "bones" of the house through which to view the exceptionally timed staccato dialogue of the well-honed ensemble cast of local and regionally recognized actors; with Allan Mayo, Heather Glenn Wixson, Kathy-Ann Hart, Connor McGrath, Mugisha Feruzi, J. Mark Morrison and Hannah Heckman-McKenna.

Can we all really ever get along? Clybourne Park asks us that question by brilliantly and uproariously examining the issues of home, race, community, inclusion, and our own biases and beliefs about ourselves and each other.

*Due to its adult language and mature themes, this play is rated PG-13.*

When: April 14th - 23rd (April 14th, 15th, 21st @ 8 pm, April 16th, and 23rd @ 2 pm and April 22nd @ 2 pm and 8 pm)

Where: The Star Theatre at the Kittery Community Center (120 Rogers Road, Kittery, ME 03904)

Box Office: Ticket cost $25.00 (Tickets available online at kitterycommunitycenter.org/star-theatre or call (207) 439-3800)

Photo Credit: (Photo 1) From L to R - Allan Mayo, Heather Glenn Wixson, Mugisha Feruzi and Kathy-Ann Hart in Threshold Stage Company's Production of "Clybourne Park" at the Star Theatre Kittery, Maine - Photo by (Monica Bushor)

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