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urne Park premiered at Playwrights Horizons in New York in January 2010 and went on to receive its UK premiere at London’s Royal Court Theatre the following year, earning the prestigious Olivier Award for Best New Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Bruce Norris’s other plays have received their world premieres at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre. These include: The Infidel (2000) Purple Heart (2002) We All Went Down to Amsterdam (2003), Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Work) The Pain and the Itch (2004, Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Work) The Unmentionables (2006) A Parallelogram (2010).
　　　Many of his plays have received subsequent productions across the world and Norris is the recipient of the 2009 Steinberg Playwright Award, the Whiting Foundation Prize for Drama and the Kesselring Prize, Honorable Mention. Bruce Norris’s daring and irreverent plays have earned him the reputation of being a provocateur with a penchant for sparking arguments.
　　　
1.2 Background of the birth of Clybourne Park
　　　Clybourne Park is inspired by Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 classic American play A Raisin in the Sun – the first play by an African American woman ever to appear on Broadway. Prior knowledge of A Raisin in the Sun is not essential to the enjoyment and understanding of Clybourne Park. However, Drama and English students will
benefit from studying this source material and exploring ways in which playwright Bruce Norris adapts the iconic characters and themes, spinning them to reveal directly truths about race, class, gender and the nature of society.

1.3 Effects of Clybourne Park to the author
　　　With a modern twist on issues of race, class, property ownership and community, Clybourne Park takes a sophisticated and satirical approach to issues of discrimination, gentrification and political correctness. Clybourne Park premiered off-Broadway in February 2010 at Playwrights Horizons in New York, followed by a January 2011 UK premiere at the Royal Court Theatre in London. Since then, the acclaimed comedy has appeared in numerous top ten lists and won the 2010 London Evening Standard, 2010 Critics’ Circle and 2011 Olivier awards for Best New Play, as well as the 2011 South Bank Sky Arts Theatre Award and 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
　　　The Pulitzer board described it as, “A powerful work whose memorable characters speak in witty and perceptive ways to America’s sometimes toxic struggle with race and class consciousness.” The 2011/12 theatre season will see several productions of Clybourne Park staged at major regional theatres throughout the United States, including the January/February 2012 Los Angeles premiere at the Mark Taper Forum, produced by Center Theater Group in partnership with Lincoln Center Theater and producers Scott Rudin and Stuart Thompson. This production is scheduled to transfer to Broadway in the spring. Studio 180 Theatre is honored to be producing the Canadian premiere of this acclaimed work, in association with Canadian Stage.
Chapter two The Characters of Black Humor
2.1 The origin and development of Black Humor
2.1.1 The origin of Black Humor
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