The Pain and the Itch
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 21, 2006
Closed Oct 15, 2006
Opened Sep 21, 2006
Closed Oct 15, 2006
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Playwrights Horizons opens its 2006/2007 season with the New York premiere of The Pain and the Itch, the controversial and blistering comedy by Bruce Norris that rocked Chicago during its 2005 world premiere production at Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Anna D. Shapiro directs.
With a young daughter in serious need of attention and a ravenous creature possibly prowling the upstairs bedrooms, what begins as an average Thanksgiving for one privileged family unravels into an exposé of disastrous choices and less-than-altruistic motives. The Pain and the Itch is a scathing satire of the politics of class and race, a controversial, painfully human examination of denial and its consequences.
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Appearances, as we all know, can be deceiving. What greets the audience as they enter Playwrights Horizons' mainstage theater for Bruce Norris' The Pain and the Itch is set designer Dan Ostling's meticulous re-creation of an affluent suburban home, complete with pretentious African art, a large-screen television, and stainless steel appliances. But what audiences won't realize -- at least until the end of Anna D. Shapiro's smartly directed and brilliantly acted production -- is what's really on that stage is a giant mirror.
That's right: Norris' target is, of all things, the urban liberal left -- embodied here by Kelly (Mia Barron), an ultra-successful lawyer, and her stay-at-home husband [...]