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Neighbors
Written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by Summer L. Williams
January 14 – February 5, 2011
The Plaza Theatre @ The Boston Center for the Arts
The most controversial and brilliant play of the season.
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 NYC’s Public Theatre’s Emerging Writers Group.
NEIGHBORS includes explicit language and sexual content and is inappropriate for children.
COMPANY ONE'S excellent Boston premiere production of NEIGHBORS by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a real slap upside the head...Go. I dare you.
- Joyce Kulhawik
this intriguing blend of over-the-top satire and family drama serves emphatic notice that its young writer is a force to reckon with
- The Boston Globe
Director Summer L. Williams’ seamless staging in this local production allows the play to provoke and amuse simultaneously
- The Boston Herald
It's smart, funny, shocking, discomfiting, and extremely entertaining. It seems to me that's what theatre should be
- BroadwayWorld.com
Cast
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Japonica Brown
Topsy
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Tory Bullock
Jim
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Johnny Lee Davenport
Richard
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Equiano Mosieri
Zip
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Christine Power
Jean
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Valerie Stephens
Mammy
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Lori Tishfield
Melody
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Jesse Tolbert
Sambo
PLAYWRIGHT & PRODUCTION STAFF
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Playwright -
Summer L. Williams
Director -
Sarah Cohan
Production Manager -
Joey Thomas
Stage Manager -
Jarrod Bray
Technical Director -
Larry Sousa
Choreographer -
Meron Langsner
Fight Choreographer & Production Dramaturg -
Lisa Thompson
Historical Dramaturg -
Andrew Remillard
Assistant Stage Manager -
Madeleine Laupheimer
Assistant Stage Manager -
Benjamin Williams
Lighting Designer -
Julia Noulin Merat
Set Designer -
David Wilson
Sound Designer -
Miranda Giurleo
Costume Designer -
Liz Panneton
Properties Designer -
Lance Norris
Dialect Coach -
Matthew Gordon-Martin
Assistant to the Director -
Michael Best
Assistant Production Manager -
Karthik Subramanian
Assistant Production Manager
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Japonica Brown
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Tory Bullock
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Johnny Lee Davenport
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Equiano Mosieri
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Christine Power
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Valerie Stephens
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Lori Tishfield
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Jesse Tolbert
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' plays include Neighbors (The Public Theater), Appropriate (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Victory Gardens Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and Signature Theatre in New York, Spring 2014), An Octoroon (Soho Rep, Spring 2014), and War. He is currently a Residency Five playwright at Signature Theatre and a Lila Acheson Wallace Fellow at The Juilliard School. Additionally, his work has been or will be seen at the Vineyard Theatre, The Matrix Theatre in Los Angeles, Company One in Boston, and the HighTide Festival in the United Kingdom. He has taught at New York University and Queens University of Charlotte, and his honors include a Paula Vogel Award, a Helen Merrill Award, and the inaugural Tennessee Williams Award. He holds an M.A. in Performance Studies.
Post-show discussion facilitation services provided courtesy of Melinda Weekes, Interaction Institute for Social Change, (Fridays – January 21 and 28, and Sundays January 23 and 30.)
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