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
BOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS Plaza Theatre
539 Tremont Street
South End, Boston, MA Get Directions
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
Japonica Brown
Tory Bullock
Johnny Lee Davenport
Equiano Mosieri
Christine Power
Valerie Stephens
Lori Tishfield
Jesse Tolbert
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.)
