Questions of race, real estate reverberate in ‘Clybourne Park’

Now at Trinity Repertory Company in a razor-sharp production directed by Brian Mertes, “Clybourne Park’’ revolves around the racially charged question of who will live in a certain house in a certain Chicago neighborhood during two different - or maybe not so different - periods of history: the late 1950s and the present. In effect, playwright Bruce Norris has imagined a prologue and a decades-later epilogue to “A Raisin in the Sun,’’ Lorraine Hansberry’s landmark 1959 drama.

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