Name: Downstate von Bruce Norris
SKU: 9781848428195
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Downstate Zusammenfassung

Downstate Bruce Norris

In downstate Illinois, four men convicted of sex crimes against minors share a group home where they live out their lives in the shadow of the offences they committed. A man shows up to confront his childhood abuser - but does he want closure or retribution?

Bruce Norris's provocative play Downstate zeroes in on the limits of our compassion and what happens when society deems anyone beyond forgiveness.

Downstate received its UK premiere at the National Theatre, London, in March 2019, in the same production which had its world premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago, in September 2018.

Downstate Bewertungen

'You can hear a pin-drop for most of the evening - except when you are laughing in shock or reeling in surprise... an astonishing piece of writing, which fulfils art's profound function of making you look and think hard about complex, difficult moral issues'

* WhatsOnStage *

'A haunting vision of sex abuse by a playwright with a gift for unsettling... Norris handles the subject matter nimbly... an uncomfortable experience, flecked with humour but bleak and haunting. It raises deeply awkward questions about revenge, revulsion and forgiveness'

* Evening Standard *

'A smart, acutely funny, important piece of work... Bruce Norris has a lightness of touch which prevents the grim subject matter from a descent into preachiness... in an arena where reasoned debate is routinely shouted down, Bruce Norris has proved to be a necessary voice'

* Telegraph *

'An unsentimental act of compassion and a devastating entertainment, a wry polemic and the darkest of dark comedies'

* Chicago Reader *

'[An] audacious, highly charged play'

* Daily Herald *

Über Bruce Norris

Bruce Norris's other plays include The Low Road, Purple Heart, The Pain and the Itch and Clybourne Park, which won the Pulitzer and the Tony in the US, and the Olivier and Evening Standard Awards in the UK.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

CIN1848428197VG

ISBN 13

9781848428195

ISBN 10

1848428197

Titel

Downstate Bruce Norris

Autor

Bruce Norris

Serien

NHB Modern Plays

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Nick Hern Books

Datum

2019-03-14

Anzahl der Seiten

128

Preise

N/A

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