Digging Deep Into Empathy With "Downstate"
Bruce Norris has a knack for making people uncomfortable. His 2006 play The Pain and the Itch featured a 4-year-old with a genital rash, a metaphor for her family's dysfunction that called for the young actor playing the part to scratch her crotch constantly which caused some theatergoers to accuse the play of child abuse. His 2010 Pulitzer and Tony winner Clybourne Park took on the issues of race and wokeness in…
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