Corpus
Christi : A Play by Terrence
McNally
The New Yorker has called Terrence McNally
"one of our most original and audacious dramatists and one of
our funniest." He is the author of such critically acclaimed
plays as Love! Valour! Compassion!, Master Class, The Lisbon
Traviata, and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. In Corpus
Christi, McNally gives us his own unique view of the story of
Christ, and in doing so provides us with one of the most vivid and
moving passion plays written. McNally's controversial new play is an
affirmation of faith and a drama of such power and scope that it has
been called blasphemy by the religious right and hailed by audiences
and critics alike as one of his best and most poignant works to
date.
Named one of the best plays of the year by Time
magazine
The New Yorker has called Terrence McNally "one of our most
original and audacious dramatists and one of our funniest." He
is the author of such critically acclaimed plays as Love! Valour!
Compassion!, Master Class, The Lisbon Traviata, and Frankie and
Johnny in the Clair de Lune. In Corpus Christi McNally gives us his
own unique view of the story of Christ, and in doing so provides us
with one of the most vivid and moving passion plays written.
McNally's play is an affirmation of faith and a drama of such power
and scope that it has been hailed by audiences and critics alike as
one of his best and most poignant works to date.
"One of McNally's best, most moving and
personal works . . . His updating of the Christ story is witty but
not patronizing, as sober and cleansing as a dip in baptismal
water."-Richard Zoglin, Time
"Corpus Christi provides a frequently
fascinating experience. . . . [It] explores a quest for faith by a
segment of the population-homosexuals-that has for centuries been
excluded and condemned by the pious God-fearing."-Erik Jackson,
Time Out New York
"Terrence McNally's controversial new play is
a moving, perhaps even spiritual experience."-Dick Schaap, ABC
World News
Terrence McNally won Tony Awards for Love! Valour!
Compassion! and Master Class as well as Tony Awards for Best Book of
a Musical for Ragtime and Kiss of the Spider Woman. In addition,
Love! Valour! Compassion! won the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle,
and New York Drama Critics' Circle awards for Best Play. McNally has
received two Guggenheim fellowships, a Rockefeller grant, and a
citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Clit
Notes : A Sapphic Sampler by Holly
Hughes
You never know how writing for the stage will
translate to the page, but the five performance pieces in "Clit
Notes" make the move remarkably well. Perhaps because Holly
Hughes is a brilliant writer, which you will discover when you read
this incredible collection. The hysterically funny "The Well of
Horniness",; which my girlfriend remembers almost having to
walk out of because she was laughing so hard she was afraid she
would pee in her pants, is almost as dangerous when read alone. What
might qualify Hughes for genius stature, though, is how she hooks
that humor to the most savage truth, as she does in the latter three
pieces in the collection about, among other things, her mother, her
father, and growing up "middle everything" in America. If
any work outlasts our present era, this may be among it.Clit
Notes is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Drama.
