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Bruce Norris

BRUCE NORRIS  

 Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Harden-Curtis Associates  represented by Mary Harden


Bruce Norris is an American actor and playwright associated with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago. His works include The Pain and the Itch and Clybourne Park, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2011.

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below is a list of Bruce Norris's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Actor Retires, The         Clybourne Park         Infidel, The         Low Road, The         Pain and the Itch, The         Parallelogram, A         Purple Heart         Unmentionables, The         Up Against It         Vanishing Twin, The         We All Went Down To Amsterdam

Actor Retires, The

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Clybourne Park

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This is from the press release: "In 1958, a white family moves out. In 2008, a white family moves in. In the intervening years, change overtakes a neighborhood, along with attitudes, inhabitants, and property values. Bruce Norris's pitch-black comedy takes on the issue of gentrification in our communities, leaving no stone unturned-and taking no prisoners-in the process."
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Infidel, The

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Low Road, The

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A young entrepreneur sets out on a quest for wealth with priceless ambition and a purse of gold. A fable of free market economics and cut-throat capitalism.

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Pain and the Itch, The

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With a young daughter in serious need of attention and a ravenous creature possibly prowling the upstairs bedrooms, what begins as an average Thanksgiving for one privileged family unravels into an expose of disastrous choices and less-than-altruistic motives. The Pain and the Itch is a scathing satire of the politics of class and race, a controversial, painfully human examination of denial and its consequences.
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Parallelogram, A

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Purple Heart

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A deeply moving meditation on love, loss and grief. October 1972. In a city somewhere in the American Midwest, Carla is trying to rebuild her life. Her husband is gone - killed in Vietnam. Now, under the watchful eye of her mother-in-law, she must raise her young son whilst struggling to avoid the sympathy of her local community. But everything changes with the unexpected arrival of a soldier on her doorstep.

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Nick Hern Books, London (2013) >>> Contained in: "Purple Heart and The Infidel" published by Northwestern University Press, 2005   978-1848423084

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Unmentionables, The

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We're thrust into a fictional West African country with an edgy prologue delivered by Etienne, an African teenager who wears earphones, carries a digital MP3, and shouts at us from the audience balcony to go home and watch TV, save time and money. Do not watch this no good show, he warns us. Don't take him seriously and leave. The Unmentionables by Bruce Norris, when brilliantly performed by a troupe of polished actors, as it is here, is worth the stay, even if it raises questions that make us squirm.
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Up Against It

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Vanishing Twin, The

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We All Went Down To Amsterdam

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