Big Bossman
by Peter Ullian

Brothers Ray and Billy desperately need their new job with the local crime boss.

They’ve got a drunken, aging father and an overworked sister.

This is their shot for something better for their family.

But then Billy impulsively brings home a Russian prostitute.

And the Big Bossman comes looking for her.“A cross between David Mamet and the Marx Brothers … Ullian’s comedy flirts with all kinds of allegorical possibilities … a suitably flaky style, an oddball naturalism that plays against the absurdities in the dialogue … bland spoofery, improbable dialogue laced with specific detail and monologues like verbal jazz riffs … Ullian has a distinctive voice.”

—Marianne Evett, The Cleveland Plain DealerAbout the plays of Peter Ullian:“Singularly satisfying, winning, heart rending, punchy, button-pushing, irresistible.

The sense of new blood entering the mainstream achieves the palpably energizing force of a transfusion.”

—New York Times“Quirky, crackling prose.”

—The Village Voice“Without apology.

Taut, absorbing.

Great style and crisp wit.”

—Variety“Courageous, intensely empathetic characters … very poignant … and truthful.”

—The Chicago Tribune