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Hell's kitchenette gets an unconvincing makeover in Court Theatre's Native Son

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Court Theatre's adaptation of Richard Wright's novel Native Son reduces societal trauma to situational shame. by Justin Hayford Richard Wright opens his engrossing, traumatizing 1940 novel Native Son in a run-down one-room kitchenette. Bigger Thomas, the story's murderous 20-year-old protagonist, lives there with his mother, brother, and sister—and a marauding rat.…

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