THE STORY: Two American war veterans, mutilated in a firefight in Iraq, find their way home from a military hospital in Germany in a harrowing and hilarious road trip that includes an illegal arms dealer, an Asian pimp, prostitutes with special skills, a wife, a fellow war vet, a lunatic born-again longhaul trucker and finally, in Crawford, Texas, their Commander in Chief, whom they thank and offer a plan to win the war.
“Michael Weller approaches a painful subject from an unusual perspective in his new play, BEAST, a macabre drama…forsakes documentary realism—the staple aesthetic for much theater about the current conflict—in favor of something more adventurous…pungently written…grimly comic.” —The New York Times.
“…a surreal combination of
Frankenstein and
Of Mice and Men…[a] striking approach.” —New York Post.
