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Purple Heart " review by Michael Billington

Gate, LondonBruce Norris has won golden praise with Clybourne Park and The Pain and the Itch at the Royal Court. Now the Gate has had the wit to revive an earlier piece, written in 2002 in the wake of the attack on the World Trade Center, but actually set in the American midwest in 1972. It proves that Norris, whose work was premiered at Chicago's Steppenwolf, knows how to write for actors, but at this stage was lear…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:39PM on March 6, 2013

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