Wyndham's theatre, London"Don't we say 'negro' now?" cautions the community pastor when, in the first act of Bruce Norris's play, a neighbour objects to the coming of a "coloured" family to his all-white New York suburb. This is the 1950s; Act 2 flips to the 00s as a black couple opposes a white family's plans to rebuild a house in the same, now all-black, suburb, on the grounds that their gentrification defiles the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM on February 12, 2011