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.
'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*
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