A short reaction to Clybourne Park
I liked the play. The dialogue was smooth an interesting. I
don’t know exactly what to say about it, racism is such a strange issue. For
example, racist jokes come up in the play, but the question is how racist are
racist jokes? One character was told a racist joke by a member of the race that
it was offending, does that mean it’s ok? Do these jokes simply allow people to
poke fun at racism and make it feel less serious? Are these kinds of jokes
simply funny but at a cost?. Is the point of the play that discrimination will
always be around but it will just take different forms? Racism is seen to be
very different than it once was. It is now seen to be more subtle but does that
also mean it is less hostile? Does that mean that racism is not as common or
has racism just turned into the viewing of stereotypes? Has racism become a
lens of race through which we see people? and most importantly how do we fix
the problem? Can we fix the problem? I have a lot of questions on this topic
and quite frankly no answers, if there are any answers. I liked the play though;
I thought it was well written. The end was strange though, very haunting.
Seemed to be conveying an idea of hope but it did so through a character who
kills himself so… I’m not sure how much that meant.
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