I’m currently doing a college analysis on this play and after reading it I watched this review. I loved hearing the perspective of someone who isn’t even in America on this play!! It’s truly it’s a truly incredible work of art and I’m glad you got such a raw experience with it as well !! This was a fantastic review and I’m very happy I found it.
Great review! It's interesting that reading this play as a white American man, I had an entirely different reading of the title. Mostly, I was thinking about the mythology of meritocracy. The idea we often evoke here that if you just "work hard enough, you too can be upwardly mobile." Which of course is a myth that white people use here to excuse racist attitudes. The irony is that Black/African-American identifying people in the US work just as hard as white-identifying people. And yet, white-identifying people hold about 90% of all financial wealth and financial resources in this country. Clearly, structures of racism play a major role in preventing people of color from getting ahead. And yet, white people here in the US still like to claim that all you have to do is "work hard" to enjoy wealth and own property. The name "Fairview" also evokes a very generic kind of suburban street. There probably are literally hundreds of "Fairview Lanes" and "Fairview Drives" littered all over the ubiquitous suburbs of the US. This evokes A Raisin in the Sun, where the Black family is fighting to own property and experiencing significant racism at all levels. In reality, the suburbs all over the US are filled with insidious kinds of racism in the form of red-lining, gentrification, and so-called NIMBY-ism (Not In My Back Yard-ism.) So even the premise of a Black American family in the suburbs carries a lot of weight and meaning. As you said, this play is endlessly brilliant and meaningful. I can't wait to see it, soon.
I’m currently doing a college analysis on this play and after reading it I watched this review. I loved hearing the perspective of someone who isn’t even in America on this play!! It’s truly it’s a truly incredible work of art and I’m glad you got such a raw experience with it as well !! This was a fantastic review and I’m very happy I found it.
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Great review! It's interesting that reading this play as a white American man, I had an entirely different reading of the title. Mostly, I was thinking about the mythology of meritocracy. The idea we often evoke here that if you just "work hard enough, you too can be upwardly mobile." Which of course is a myth that white people use here to excuse racist attitudes. The irony is that Black/African-American identifying people in the US work just as hard as white-identifying people. And yet, white-identifying people hold about 90% of all financial wealth and financial resources in this country. Clearly, structures of racism play a major role in preventing people of color from getting ahead. And yet, white people here in the US still like to claim that all you have to do is "work hard" to enjoy wealth and own property. The name "Fairview" also evokes a very generic kind of suburban street. There probably are literally hundreds of "Fairview Lanes" and "Fairview Drives" littered all over the ubiquitous suburbs of the US. This evokes A Raisin in the Sun, where the Black family is fighting to own property and experiencing significant racism at all levels. In reality, the suburbs all over the US are filled with insidious kinds of racism in the form of red-lining, gentrification, and so-called NIMBY-ism (Not In My Back Yard-ism.) So even the premise of a Black American family in the suburbs carries a lot of weight and meaning. As you said, this play is endlessly brilliant and meaningful. I can't wait to see it, soon.
Thank you. That’s a very interesting perspective on a fascinating play.
amazing review, thank you
"4 stars" out of how many?
5. I don’t know why but a rating out of 5 is now the norm in UK theatre reviews.