BROKEN FENCES by Steven Simoncic

In a neighborhood on Chicago's deep West Side, the momentum of gentrification has taken hold and things have begun to change forever. As property taxes rise and demographics shift, Hoody and D struggle to keep the only home they have ever known. But when April and Czar -- a white couple intent on starting a family -- buy their first home and move in next door, the very definition of home is called into...
In a neighborhood on Chicago's deep West Side, the momentum of gentrification has taken hold and things have begun to change forever. As property taxes rise and demographics shift, Hoody and D struggle to keep the only home they have ever known. But when April and Czar -- a white couple intent on starting a family -- buy their first home and move in next door, the very definition of home is called into question. With unflinching honesty and unapologetic humor, Broken Fences examines identity and invisibility, community and security, hope and hostility through characters living in a modern American urban village that is at once foreign, and the place they call home.
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  • Ann Filmer:
    4 Sep. 2014
    “ This was the most successful show at 16th Street Theater to date: critically, audience fave, best box office, most artistically rewarding. I co-directed with Ilesa Duncan of Chicago's Pegasus. Broken Fences is funny and accessible while being deeply moving and theatrically whole and about something real and pressing: gentrification. You will fall in love with each of the characters you meet whether you disagree or agree with them. And the conversations after the play!! I cannot recommend it enough. One of my all-time favorite theatrical experiences. And the playwright Steven Simoncic is a gracious human being. Produce this play! ”