THE STORY: Two American war veterans, mutilated in a firefight in Iraq, find their way home from a military hospital in Germany in a harrowing and hilarious road trip that includes an illegal arms dealer, an Asian pimp, prostitutes with special skills, a wife, a fellow war vet, a lunatic born-again longhaul trucker and finally, in Crawford, Texas, their Commander in Chief, whom they thank and offer a plan to win the war.

"Michael Weller approaches a painful subject from an unusual perspective in his new play, BEAST, a macabre dramaforsakes documentary realism - the staple aesthetic for much theater about the current conflict - in favor of something more adventurouspungently writtengrimly comic." - NY Times. "a surreal combination of Frankenstein and Of Mice and Men[a] striking approach." - NY Post.

Publisher

Dramatists Play Service Inc.

Format

Play

Binding

Softcover

ISBN

9780822223498

Stock code

9780822223498

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