HADDON PARK PREMIERS AT HFF19: RACE, SEXUALITY AND CLASS COLLIDE AND ERUPT IN FAMILY DRAMA
May 08, 2019
May 1st, 2019
Lounge Theatre
6201 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles
Haddon Park is a new American play by writer/actor John Francis O’Brien premiering at The Lounge Theater June 10th and running through June 30th, 2019.
Tackling the definitive American social issues of our time, racism, homophobia and the forgotten man through the lens of a brother/sister relationship, Haddon Park is an intimate family drama that weaves humor, heart and tragedy in an electrifying one-act play.
Siblings Chris and Brenda’s lives have taken very different paths since Chris left home at the age of 18. Now in their 30’s, Chris has returned to working class Haddon Park with his husband Henry and their recently adopted son. Chris and Henry are much better off financially than Brenda and her two children which creates a delicate environment. When Brenda’s 5 year old son carelessly uses a racial epithet when talking to Henry, who is African-American, it sets into motion a series of events that has
