Beast
by Michael Weller

Beast Book Cover
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45 minsExpandable CastingUnit Set/Multiple SettingsAmerican

Synopsis

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 ski

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"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

Publication

Year2009
BindingPaperback
Pages72
PlaceNew York
LanguageEnglish
ISBN-139780822223498
ISBN-10082222349X
LCCN2010526465
LCCMLCS 2011/42412 (P)

Beast is a American play written by Michael Weller and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York (2009).

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Dramatists Play Service · 2009 · 72 pp

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