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NEWS & EVENTS>Newletters>Spring
2005
We continue this season's theme of "clashing cultures" with an
original New York tale. There
Goes The Neighborhood offers a humorous insider's look at
the phenomenon of gentrification in New York City.
Based on interviews conducted by performer Deanna Pacelli and writer
Mari Brown over a two-year period, the play uses the diverse voices
of ten very different neighbors - including an
"I
looked at them and said:
Who are you? And what the hell is my facade!?!" |
Italian deli owner, a Latina teenager, a gay yuppie activist, a
hip-hop DJ and an Asian nightclub owner - to explain how a once
Italian working-class community went from "crack to baguettes" in
less than a decade.
The
subject of a New
York Times feature article, There
Goes The Neighborhood is a comic testament to the endurance
of community.
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