Bruce Norris
Bruce Norris (born 1960) is an American playwright and actor, associated with Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago.
Norris has written the following plays:
The Actor Retires (1992)
The Vanishing Twin (1996)
The Infidel (2002)
Purple Heart (2002)
We All Went Down to Amsterdam (2003)
The Pain and the Itch (2004)
The Unmentionables (2006)
Clybourne Park (2009)
A Parallelogram (2010)
Information
(Objekt ID 29176)| Object type | Person |
| Born | May 16, 1960 |
| Functions | Author, Actor, Dramatist/Playwright |
| Nationality | American |
| Gender | Male |
Bruce Norris won The Pulitzer Prize as well as The Olivier Award (Best New Play) for Clybourne Park in 2011. In 2012 the play was produced as a staged reading by Oslo International Theatre in collaboration with The Norwegian Theatre.
The centre of Clybourne Park is a house in a neighbourhood in Chicago. As the play starts during the 1950es a white married couple is about to sell the house to a black family, and the neighbours in the very white neighbourhood is not happy about it.
Fifty years later the neighbourhood consists of black families. Much is different, but the conflicts are surprisingly stable; who really likes the idea of strangers in one's neighbourhood?
The fear of the unknown and the lack of knowledge can both be wrapped in an acceptable, educated language and be presented as a wish what's best for the common good.
Sources:
E-mail from Oslo International Theatre, 07.06.2012
Wikipedia, 13.09.2012 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Norris_%28playwright%29
| Title | Premiere | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Clybourne Park (Oslo International Theatre) | May 31, 2012 | Playwright |
| Title | Publiseringsdato | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Clybourne Park | Script | – Author |