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Bruce Norris

    Lost in Legend
    The Low Road
    Clybourne Park
    The Pain and the Itch
    Downstate
    • 2018

      Lost in Legend

      • 112 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      A child accidentally entombed alive and abandoned to die, the heartbroken ghost of a tormented teenage girl bullied by her brother, corpses of decapitated soldiers, and cursed pirate gold: South Carolina has its haunts! Join a retired homicide investigator and founder of the company Lost in Legend, Bruce Orr, as he investigates the history behind the hauntings and the facts behind the folklore of South Carolina's coastal legends. Read 14 in-depth accounts that provide historic context important to local myths, folklore, and legends, as well as the paranormal outcomes and current research and beliefs that still shroud the state. Visit Edisto Island's Legare Tomb, Alice Flagg of Murrells Inlet, Blackbeard's blockade of the Charleston Harbor, and more. You may know the legends, you may have seen the ghosts; now learn the facts behind the events.

      Lost in Legend
    • 2013

      The Low Road

      • 147 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      A fable of free market economics and cut-throat capitalism, in which a young entrepreneur sets out on a quest for wealth with priceless ambition and a purse of gold.

      The Low Road
    • 2011

      Winner, Best Play, Evening Standard Awards 2010. An acerbically brilliant satire that explores the fault line between race and property in a Chicago neighborhood first in 1959 and revisited in 2009.

      Clybourne Park
    • 2008

      The Pain and the Itch

      • 128 pages
      • 5 hours of reading
      3.9(19)Add rating

      The play intricately explores the façade of a seemingly perfect family through a darkly comedic lens. Set during a winter afternoon, a prosperous couple, Kelly and Clay, recount a troubling Thanksgiving gathering that reveals deep-seated issues within their family, including failed marriages and infidelity. The arrival of a Muslim cab driver prompts a deeper examination of their self-delusions and the emptiness of their liberal ideals. With sharp satire, the narrative critiques the American upper-middle class, exposing the lies that mask their moral failings.

      The Pain and the Itch
    • 1900

      Downstate

      • 125 pages
      • 5 hours of reading
      4.3(141)Add rating

      A provocative new play from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Clybourne Park.

      Downstate