Fairview @ University of Puget Sound (Tacoma)

The Department of Theatre Arts is excited to be partnering with Tacoma’s empathos theatre company to produce Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Fairview, a challenging play about contemporary Black experience, will be directed by empathos Artistic Director Chevi Chung, with a cast and design team drawn from local theatre professionals and students.

Fairview inventively presents the dilemmas of race, perception, and representation, as one family’s birthday celebration for their matriarch becomes the occasion for appropriation by characters who want the satisfaction of stereotypes. The violence at the heart of racialized imaginations emerges in theatrical ways. How do the things we watch on television and movies make us think we know about marginalization and identity? Who is playing what roles? Who is watching and being watched? What happens when we change our vantage point?

Location: Norton Clapp Theatre in Jones Hall (UPS campus)

Free admission; donations accepted.

Tickets here.