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'''''Downstate''''' is a 2018 [[Wikipedia:Bruce Norris (playwright)|Bruce Norris]] play centering on a group of four [[Child Sexual Abuse|Child Sex Offenders]], and detailing society's [[Special Article: Adverse effects of hysteria|disproportionate response]] towards them.

''The Guardian's'' Michael Billington wrote in his review:

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''The setting is a group home in downstate Illinois, where four men with previous convictions live in uneasy confinement. To his credit, Norris shows that sex criminals are individuals rather than a uniform class. The main action stems from the confrontation of Fred, a gentle figure in a motorised wheelchair, with one of his victims, the tormented Andy. But, while Fred is seemingly penitent, his fellow inmate, Dee, shows little remorse for a long-term relationship he had with one of the Lost Boys in a touring production of Peter Pan. Dee is also vehemently at odds with the mouthy Gio, guilty of an offence with a teenage girl. Completing this unhappy quartet is Felix, whose crimes involved his own daughter. ''[...]'' But, without exonerating his characters, Norris shows how they react in different ways to their guilt: Fred, for instance, openly acknowledges it, while the noisily articulate Gio lives in a state of denial. Through the presence of a probation officer, Norris also reminds us that the men are increasingly subject to territorial limits: stopping them shopping at a nearby supermarket hardly feels like a major protection of the public. Norris raises all kinds of key questions about how far society’s punitive approach should go: only in the US are registries of sex offenders easily available to the public on the web.''<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/mar/21/downstate-review-steppenwolf-national-theatre-child-abusers-punishment Downstate review – big-question drama on how we live with child abusers]</ref>
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==External links==

*[https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/theater/downstate-review.html ‘Downstate’ Review: A Foulness in the Very Air They Breathe]

==References==

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