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Downstate

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A provocative new play from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Clybourne Park.
  • 17 September 2019
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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 offenses they committed. A man shows up to confront his childhood abuser--but does he want closure or retribution?

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

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Price: $22.95
Pages: 96
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Publication Date: 17 September 2019
Trim Size: 7.75 X 5.00 in
ISBN: 9781848428195
Format: Paperback
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"A great, squirmy moral-thrill-ride of a play by Bruce Norris…in some ways his most serious, successful and difficult work." – The New York Times

Bruce Norris is an American actor and playwright associated with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago.

His plays include: Downstate (Steppenwolf, 2018; National Theatre, 2019); The Low Road (Royal Court Theatre, 2013); Clybourne Park (New York, 2010; Royal Court Theatre, 2010); The Pain and the Itch (Steppenwolf, 2005; Royal Court Theatre, 2007) and Purple Heart (Steppenwolf, 2002).

His play Clybourne Park won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.