Two households, both alike in dignity.

Not Shakespeare, but the playwright Bruce Norris.

Clybourne Park, Norris’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, opened at the Village Players Theatre last weekend.

The play’s first act is set in 1959, where grieving parents Bev and Russ discover the home they’re selling is being purchased by a Black family. When their concerned neighbors come to visit them, their stated fears about the neighborhood reveal deeper prejudice.

The second act takes place 50 years later, where the same neighborhood is on the cusp of gentrification as wealthier white families move in and displace residents of the now all-Black neighborhood.

IF YOU GO:

WHAT: ‘Clybourne Park’

WHEN: 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday

WHERE: 2740 Upton Ave., Toledo

ADMISSION: $20 for adults,

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