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Playwright Tracey Scott Wilson (The Good Negro, The Story) returns to The Public with BUZZER, a darkly funny, intensely gripping new play The Chicago Tribune calls “a sizzling drama about race, real estate and sexual betrayal.”
Jackson left his tough Brooklyn neighborhood by winning a scholarship to Exeter, where he met Don, a play-hard rich boy who became his unlikely best friend. Now a Harvard-educated lawyer, Jackson’s bought a place in the newly gentrifying area he grew up in. But Jackson’s white girlfriend, Suzy, isn’t so sure she belongs in a community “on the verge.” When Don comes to crash with his old buddy and stay clean, his stories of the neighborhood's dangerous past collide with the growing disconnect between Jackson and Suzy, and the treacherous sexual and racial tensions waiting just beyond the door and demanding to be let in.
Obie Award-winner Anne Kauffman (Detroit, Belleville) directs this electrifying New York premiere about love, fear, and the high costs of choosing with whom we make a home, and where.
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
TUESDAY thru SUNDAY @ 7:30 PM
SATURDAY & SUNDAY @ 2 PM
Jackson left his tough Brooklyn neighborhood by winning a scholarship to Exeter, where he met Don, a play-hard rich boy who became his unlikely best friend. Now a Harvard-educated lawyer, Jackson’s bought a place in the newly gentrifying area he grew up in. But Jackson’s white girlfriend, Suzy, isn’t so sure she belongs in a community “on the verge.” When Don comes to crash with his old buddy and stay clean, his stories of the neighborhood's dangerous past collide with the growing disconnect between Jackson and Suzy, and the treacherous sexual and racial tensions waiting just beyond the door and demanding to be let in.
Obie Award-winner Anne Kauffman (Detroit, Belleville) directs this electrifying New York premiere about love, fear, and the high costs of choosing with whom we make a home, and where.
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
TUESDAY thru SUNDAY @ 7:30 PM
SATURDAY & SUNDAY @ 2 PM
Age Guidance: 16
Show Notes: 1 Intermission
Audience Advisory:
Post-show talkbacks: Tues March 31 and Weds April 15
