The pain and the itch
By: Bruce Norris
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Subjects: Families; Drama; Thanksgiving Day
Description: The play is set in a handsomely appointed apartment in an unnamed American city. The apartment belongs to an apparently contented young couple: stay-at-home dad Clay and his high-flying lawyer wife Kelly. The play takes place in two separate time frames, at two gatherings spliced together for dramatic effect. One is a Thanksgiving holiday dinner, at which Clay and Kelly are joined by Clay's plastic-surgeon brother Cash, his Eastern European girlfriend Kalina, and Clay's mother Carol. During the dinner it is revealed that Clay and Kelly's toddler daughter Kayla is suffering from an uncomfortable genital rash of unknown and possibly sinister cause.
Notes: Previously issued in print: London: Nick Hern Books, 2007.