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The Pain and The Itch
Written by Bruce Norris
Directed by M. Bevin O’Gara
March 13 – April 4, 2009
The Plaza Theatre @ The Boston Center for the Arts
Company One is proud to present the Boston premiere of Bruce Norris's controversial play THE PAIN AND THE ITCH, featuring Nancy E. Carroll. 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 compelling, painfully human examination of denial and its consequences. Following sold out runs at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre and New York’s Playwright’s Horizons, Company One is proud to stage this highly anticipated Boston premiere.
A great evening of theatre and I challenge you to keep your jaw from dropping.
- BroadwayWorld.com
Sharp...merrily dark satire.
- The Boston Globe
Darkly funny...wallop of a play...sharp, funny dialogue.
- The Boston Herald
Skillfully crafted and SCATHINGLY FUNNY
- The Phoenix
THE ACTING IS SUPERB.
- The Theatre Mirror
Cast
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Aimee Doherty
Kelly
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Cedric Lilly
Mr. Hadid
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Dennis Trainor, Jr.*
Cash
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Joe Lanza
Clay
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Nancy E. Carroll*
Carol
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Philana Mia Gnatowski
Kalina
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Helen Steinman
Kayla
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Abigail Steinman
Kayla
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Rebecca Skye Hamberg
Kayla
PLAYWRIGHT & PRODUCTION STAFF
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Bruce Norris
Playwright -
M. Bevin O'Gara
Director -
Cristina Todesco
Set Designer -
James McNamara
Lighting Designer -
Angela Jajko
Costume Designer -
Aaron Mack
Sound Designer -
Basia Goszczynska
Props Designer -
Jordan Harrison
Video Designer -
Sarah Cohan
Production Manager -
Mark Abby VanDerzee
Technical Director -
Amanda LaForge
Assistant Stage Manager -
Robyn Jones
Assistant Stage Manager -
Charles Haugland
Dramaturg -
Meghan Dalton
Assistant Director -
Stacy Garland
Assistant Costume Designer
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Aimee Doherty
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Cedric Lilly
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Dennis Trainor, Jr.*
*Member of Actor's Equity Association -
Joe Lanza
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Nancy E. Carroll*
*Member of Actor's Equity Association -
Helen Steinman
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Abigail Steinman
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Rebecca Skye Hamberg
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Bruce Norris
Bruce Norris’ Clybourne Park won the Tony Award for Best Play in 2012, the Olivier and Evening Standard Awards (London) for Best Play, 2011, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2011. Other plays include The Infidel (2000), Purple Heart (2002), We All Went Down to Amsterdam (2003), The Pain and the Itch (2004) and The Unmentionables (2006), and A Parallelogram (2010), all of which had their premieres at Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago. Two new plays, titled The Low Road and Domesticated, respectively, will premiere in 2013 at the Royal Court Theatre, London and at Lincoln Center Theatre, New York. His work has also been seen at Playwrights Horizons (New York), Lookingglass Theatre (Chicago), Philadelphia Theatre Company, Woolly Mammoth Theatre (Washington, D.C.), Staatstheater Mainz (Germany), and the Galway Festival (Ireland), among others. He is the recipient of the Steinberg Playwright Award (2009), and The Whiting Foundation Prize for Drama (2006), as well as two Joseph Jefferson Awards (Chicago) for Best New Work. As an actor he can be seen in the films A Civil Action and The Sixth Sense, and the recent All Good Things. He lives in New York.
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