num_pages: 72
description: Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepardâ€s latest play is 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 Frankâ€s old friend Haynes, who is on the lam from a secret government project involving plutonium, theyâ€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 long half life.
language: English
title: The God of Hell - Acting Edition
titlecomplete: The God of Hell - Acting Edition
genres: Theatre, Drama, American, Plays, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 343
publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.