FAIRVIEW at Stray Cat Theatre

Stray Cat continues Season 21’s celebration of BIPOC voices with the 2019 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama - FAIRVIEW by Jackie Sibblies Drury. What starts off as a comfortable sitcom-like story of a well-to-do Black family soon spirals and turns into something entirely unexpected.

Beverly Frasier is determined to throw a perfect birthday party for her mother, but her sister can’t be bothered to help, her husband doesn’t seem to listen, her brother is M.I.A., her daughter is a teenager, and maybe nothing is what it seems in the first place! Fairview is a searing examination of families, drama, family dramas, and the insidiousness of racism in America.

“…dazzling and ruthless…a glorious, scary reminder of the unmatched power of live theater to rattle, roil and shake us wide awake.” -The New York Times