Student Previews - FAIRVIEW

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Visual & Performing Arts Center at WCSU

WCSU Dept. of Theatre Arts presents FAIRVIEW by Jackie Sibblies Drury. You can only register for one student preview performance.

Studio Theatre - Visual & Performing Arts Center

<h1><em>FAIRVIEW</em></h1><h2>by Jackie Sibblies Drury</h2><h3>Director: Donna Baldwin Bradby</h3><h3>Presented in the Studio Theatre at the Visual and Performing Arts Center at WCSU. Runs March 31st through April 16th.</h3>
FAIRVIEW was originally commissioned and presented by

Soho Rep, New York, NY

(Sarah Benson, Artistic Director; Cynthia Flowers, Executive Director)

and

Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Berkeley, CA

(Tony Taccone, Artistic Director; Susan Medak, Managing Director)


<h3>About the Show</h3><p>At the Frasier household, preparations for Grandma’s birthday party are underway. Beverly is holding on to her sanity by a thread to make sure this party is perfect, but her sister can’t be bothered to help, her husband doesn’t seem to listen, her brother is MIA, 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 white supremacy.</p><p>Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize. “...dazzling and ruthless...one of the most exquisitely and systematically arranged ambushes of an unsuspecting audience in years...FAIRVIEW is a series of perspective-altering surprises, and they keep coming at you even when you think [Drury] must surely have emptied [her] bag of tricks...a glorious, scary reminder of the unmatched power of live theater to rattle, roil and shake us wide awake.” —The New York Times.</p>

<h3>About the Director</h3><p>DONNA BALDWIN-BRADBY  is a professor of Theatre Arts at North Carolina A&amp;T State University, the country’s largest HBCU. Most recently she was named Executive Director of Touring Theatre of North Carolina and remains heavily involved with the annual National Black Theatre Festival. Some of her most recent professional directing credits include: Ain't Misbehavin': The "Fats" Waller Musical Show, The America Play, Ethel Waters: His Eye is on the Sparrow, and From the Mississippi Delta and The Old Settler. Additionally, Donna has provided choreography for Das Barbecü, ‘MASTER HAROLD’...and the boys, and served as the movement coach for The Matchmaker and The Diary of Anne Frank. Donna has also directed multiple productions of Mad at Miles: A Black Woman’s Guide to Truth for Triad Stage, at The National Black Theatre Festival, NC A&amp;T University, Spelman College, and at Seven Stages in Atlanta, GA.</p><p>As a performer, Donna has worked professionally across the country in productions of: Crowns, Menopause: The Musical, Violet, Nunsense, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Dreamgirls, Big River, and Little Shop of Horrors to name a few. Donna is passionate about theatre, and its ability to impact humanity in ways both significant and profound. Education: BFA, NC A&amp;T MFA, Virginia Tech.</p>

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