A Broadway show about life after incarceration finds its most avid audience in a New York City prison
“Clyde’s,” like “Sweat” directed by Kate Whoriskey and set in the environs of Reading, Pa., was an outgrowth of Nottage’s research in Reading. The region was a magnet for those recently released from Pennsylvania prisons because it had an abundance of blue-collar jobs.The idea of offering the show free to a unit at Rikers struck the playwright as inspired.
“One of the things I remain interested in is figuring out ways in which we make theater more accessible, and it’s not just about making tickets cheaper,” Nottage said in a phone interview. “That’s not purely what accessibility is. It’s also unpacking ways in which theater breaks down barriers, and also interrogating the notion of whether theater has to be in a box.”, a New York-based foundation seeking to reform prison sentencing and end mass incarceration.
“What we are so lacking now is our ability to hold onto complexity, and this play allows us those opportunities.”The opportunity appealed, too, to Second Stage Theater, producers of “Clyde’s” that ended its limited run on Jan. 16. Khady Kamara, executive director of the nonprofit company, said the relationship with the Art for Justice Fund came about as Second Stage looked for ways to return from thepandemic with more emphasis on social action.
“We learn from this, we gain from it, it allows us to diversify and grow our pool potential of workers,” Kamara said. With a five-person cast led by Uzo Aduba — playing a corrosively funny cafe owner, unrestrained in her bullying of vulnerable employees — “Clyde’s” is that rare piece of narrative art that paints formerly incarcerated people as whole human beings.
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