| Author: | Jill Elaine Hughes | EMail: | jillhughes2@yahoo.com | ICWP Member?: | Yes | Nearest Large City: | Chicago, Illinois | Country: | USA | Play Title: | The Man Upstairs | Runtime: | 120+plus minutes | Synopsis: | THE MAN UPSTAIRS Cast: 4W, 2M, multicultural (3 Caucasians, 2 Asian-Americans, 1 African-American); unit set.
Synopsis: Janice Taylor-Leung, a thirtysomething Caucasian woman, and her husband Walter Leung, a Cantonese immigrant from Hong Kong, are well-educated, politically liberal professionals who recently bought a condo in a gentrifying Chicago neighborhood. They find their worlds turned upside down by the actions of their African-American upstairs neighbor, and are unwittingly pulled in a tug-of-war between liberal ideologies and their own deeply buried prejudices. This full-length drama examines the dark side of contemporary American race relations.
Production/Development History: Staged reading in Chicago Dramatists Saturday Series, August 2004
| Male: | 2 | Female: | 4 | Max. Cast: | 6 | Min. Cast: | 6 | Media: | Stage | Genre: | Drama | Theme: | American Racism | Web Page: | | First Name: | Jill Elaine | Last Name: | Hughes | Notes: | |
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