The God Of Hell
Aug 1 – Aug 23
By Sam Shepard
Directed by Chris Johnston
An uproarious, brilliantly provocative farce that b rings 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.
“Startling…apocalyptic…a confident and unsettling scenario of surreal doom.” –New Yorker
Deliriously entertaining and deeply scary…a shivering work of existential mystery.” –NY Newsday