Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park to Launch Royal Court's Fall Season

Clybourne Park, Bruce Norris’ provocative follow-up to A Raisin in the Sun and a recent hit at Playwrights Horizons, has been chosen to open the fall season at London’s Royal Court Theatre. The play, which explores race and real estate over a span of 50 years in a Chicago neighborhood, will begin on August 26, with opening night on September 2, running thought October 2. Dominic Cooke, acclaimed for his 2007 production of Norris’ The Pain and the Itch at the Royal Court, directs.

Director Roger Michell returns to the Royal Court to helm the company’s second offering, Nina Raine’s family drama Tribes. The play will run October 14-November 13, opening October 20.

The theater’s first-ever Christmas show, Get Santa!, written and directed by Anthony Neilson, with music by Nick Powell, will be presented December 1-January 15, opening December 14. Also on tap at the Upstairs Theater are Nick Payne’s Wanderlust, directed by Simon Godwin (September 9-October 9); Brett Neveu’s Red Bud, directed by Jo McInnes (October 21-November 13); and E.V. Crowe’s Kin, directed by Jeremy Herrin (November 19-December 23).

No casting for any of the fall productions has been announced.