FAIRVIEW
by
Jackie Sibblies Drury
directed by
Aaron Brown
Performance Dates:
May 25 - June 17, 2023
Where:
1824 Spring Street, STUDIO 101
Houston, TX 77007
The play begins with The Frasiers, a middle-class American family preparing for a dinner party. However, this seemingly typical family drama soon takes a turn into a metatheatrical roller coaster ride that ultimately confronts the audience with their own assumptions and biases. The recipient of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, FAIRVIEW offers a powerful commentary on race, identity, and the complexities of representation in America.
Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Award for Female Playwrights
“dazzling and ruthless” - The New York Times
IN THE NEWS
“REVIEW: 4th Wall Theatre Shows Prowess In Exceptional Fairview”
- BroadwayWorld Houston
5.30.23
"REVIEW: Pulitzer-winning 'Fairview' asks tough questions about race in America"
- Houston Chronicle
5.28.23
"First Look at Fairview at 4th Wall Theatre”
- BroadwayWorld Houston
5.27.23
"REVIEW: Fairview With its Twists and Turns Confronts Race in Moments Both Absurd and Realistic” - Houston Press
5.10.23
"In Fairview at 4th Wall Theatre Company, a Family is Under Surveillance”
- Houston Press
4.30.23
“4th Wall Theatre Company to Present Fairview Beginning in May”
- BroadwayWorld Houston
Special Performance Dates:
May 25- Preview
May 26 - Opening Night
June 4 - Open-Captioned
Talkback with cast led by Dr. Robert Shimko from the University of Houston
June 11 - Post-Show Dialogue on Racism feat. The Center for Healing Racism
June 12 - Pay-What-You-Will Night
June 17 - Closing Night
About the Play
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Ciara Shabree as Keisha
ShaWanna Renee Rivon as Beverly
Jasmine Renee Thomas as Jasmine
Derrick Brent II as Dayton
Wesley Whitson as Mack
Courtney Lomelo as Bets
Faith Fossett as Suze
Drake Simpson as Jimbo
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Set Designer | Nicholas Graves
Lighting Designer | Christina Giannelli
Sound Designer | Robert Leslie Meek
Costumer Designer | Leah Smith
Properties | Samantha Hyman
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Assistant Director | Christian Tannous
Production Stage Manager | Kalin Menzel
Set Construction | Santiago Sepeda
Lighting Intern | Lydia Gafford
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Jackie Sibblies Drury is a Brooklyn-based playwright. Her critically acclaimed play FAIRVIEW premiered in 2018 at Soho Rep. Other plays include WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT A PRESENTATION ABOUT THE HERERO OF NAMIBIA, FORMERLY KNOWN AS SOUTH WEST AFRICA, FROM THE GERMAN SUDWESTAFRIKA, BETWEEN THE YEARS 1884-1915; REALLY; and MARYS SEACOLE.
Drury's plays have been presented by New York City Players and Abrons Arts Center, Soho Rep, Berkeley Rep, Victory Gardens, Trinity Rep, Woolly Mammoth, Undermain Theatre, InterAct Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Company One, and The Bush Theatre in London, among others.
Her work has been developed at The Bellagio Center, Sundance, The Ground Floor, Manhattan Theatre Club, Ars Nova, A.C.T., The Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, NYTW, PRELUDE, The Bushwick Starr, and The MacDowell Colony.
Drury is a NYTW Usual Suspect, a United States Artists Gracie Fellow, and has received a Van Lier Fellowship at New Dramatists, a Jerome Fellowship at The LARK, a Windham-Campbell Literary Prize in Drama, a Helen Merrill Playwriting Award, and is a winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
Most recently, she co-wrote ILLINOIS along with Justin Peck, a musical based on Sufjan Steven's 2005 concept album of the same name.
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View the digital show program at this link.
FAIRVIEW is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.