Theater: The Public Theater / 425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY, 10003
Have you seen the new neighbors? Richard Patterson is not happy. The family of black actors that has moved in next door is rowdy, tacky, shameless, and uncouth. And they are not just invading his neighborhood—they’re infiltrating his family, his sanity, and his entirely post-racial lifestyle. This wildly theatrical, explosive play on race marks the major debut of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, member of the Public’s Emerging Writers Group.
March 9, 2010: In “Neighbors,” a simultaneously overheated and undercooked new play that’s part of the Public Theater’s Lab program, the young playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins tries to trace in bold strokes how the poisons spread by disgraced racial stereotypes continue to contaminate American culture and the American family.
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