The Pain and the Itch - Softcover

In this brief but staggering two-act, playwright Norris demonstrates his skill at drawing out the dark truth that lurks beneath the surface of the perfect family. His crackling satire takes dead aim at the self-satisfied, left-leaning American upper-middle class and its many self-delusions.            On a winter afternoon, Kelly and Clay an attractive, prosperous, seemingly happy couple with a four-year-old daughter and a newborn baby must explain to a visitor the events of the previous Thanksgiving, on which, so it seems, someone or something had been gnawing at the avocados on their kitchen table. In the course of this holiday gathering attended by Clay s mother, a well-meaning but clueless first-grade teacher who spouts pointless liberal bromides; his brother, a plastic surgeon with a nihilistic streak and a taste for martinis; and h