THE STORY: An uproarious, brilliantly provocative farce that brings the gifts of a quintessentially American playwright to bear on the current American dilemma. Frank and Emma are a quiet, respectable couple who raise cows on their Wisconsin farm. Soon after they agree to put up Frank's old friend Haynes, who is on the lam from a secret government project involving plutonium, they're visited by Welch, an unctuous government bureaucrat from hell. His aggressive patriotism puts Frank, Emma and Haynes on the defensive, transforming a heartland American household into a scene of torture and promoting a radioactive brand of conformity with a dangerously low half life.

"Startlingapocalyptica confident and unsettling scenario of surreal doom." - The New Yorker. "A robust new farce [that] shows Mr. Shepard's gift for finding deadpan surrealism in bucolic speechas hilarious as it is sobering." - NY Times. "Deliriously entertaining and deeply scarya shivering work of existential mystery." - NY Newsday. "Pungent and poignantdarkly comicmasterfully acerbic." - USA Today.

Publisher

Dramatists Play Service Inc.

Format

Play

Binding

Softcover

ISBN

9780822220640

Stock code

9780822220640

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