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White People (2010)

Martin, Mara Lynn and Alan wrestle with guilt, prejudice and the price they and their children must pay for their actions in this candid, darkly funny and brutally honest meditation on race and language in our culture.

The Road Theatre Company proudly presents a Road Revival of

WHITE PEOPLE

 

Written by: Directed by:
JT Rogers Douglas Clayton

 

CAST
Avery Clyde*, Mark Doerr*, Tom Knickerbocker*

 

Executive Producers Producer
Taylor Gilbert John Gowans
Sam Anderson  
 
Assistant Director Stage Manager
Ashley Steed Maurie Gonzalez

 

Scenic Design Lighting Design
Helen Harwell Christian Epps
 
Sound Design Costume Design
David B. Marling Michael Mullen

 

Dialect Coach
Linda de Vries

 

UNDERSTUDIES
Bernie Zilinskas

 

 

* denotes member of Actors' Equity Association

This project is supported in part, by a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs and also supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.

 

Watch the trailer for WHITE PEOPLE & MADAGASCAR

 

Press Photos
photo credits: Chris Goss

 

Read what the critics are saying:
BACKSTAGE
"In a time when divisions—political, ethnic, socioeconomic—drive wedges between people at every turn, playwright JT Rogers' work is timely beyond words...Director Douglas Clayton and his cast elevate Rogers' words, be they damning or mundane, to perfection. The actors handle Rogers' format...so expertly that the resulting stories seem to be uttered out loud for the very first time. Doerr's delivery is astonishing in this regard, as his character wrestles with an internal barometer born of his position in liberal academia. Meanwhile, Clyde captures the heart-wrenching duality of a woman mourning the lost opportunities of her past and that of her never-to-be-cured child. Knickerbocker's quintessentially stiff-backed legal lion is dramatic characterization at its finest, demonstrating an ultimately tragic devotion to the business at hand."

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"Helmer Douglas Clayton infuses each monologue with visual dash by using the other two thesps as living statues, moving in and out of Christian Epps' atmospheric shadows to assume silent attitudes. It's an apt metaphorical reminder that we eke out existence in the company of others, while remaining fundamentally alone."

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