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Mr. Universe and Other Plays

Jim Grimsley

Here is award-winning drama that peers into the nature of human conflict with wit, risk, and a sense of adventure. From the gritty streets of New Orleans, where a muscle man is rescued by two drag queens, to a prison cell, where Jesus is interrogated by his ambitious disciple, Grimsley's plays ask what happens when divergent worlds cross. What happens, for instance, when a yuppie couple and their poor rural neighbors are unexpectedly forced to address their differences - and their similarities? What happens when members of a film crew shooting an adult movie on the beach of Bikini Atoll, in the Marshall Islands, confront their own fears on the eve of the first hydrogen bomb explosion?

GenresDramaAmerican

254 pages, 3 editions

English edition · First published 1998 by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill · ISBN 9781565122024

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Editions

3 editions

English

  • Mr. Universe and Other Plays · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill · 1998 · ISBN 9781565122024 This page
  • Mr. Universe and Other Plays · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill · 1998 · ISBN 9781565122116
  • Mr. Universe and Other Plays · Algonquin Books · 1998 · ISBN 9781565127807

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