The Muckle Man
by Roberto Aguirre-sacasa

"You can't really slap a label on Aguirre-Sacasa's play, which has no trouble hooking the audience…Explaining what a muckle man is (in case you don't know) would spoil the plot—a plot that is, at bottom, a folkloric thriller. Aguirre-Sacasa, who has a frisky sense of humor, fashions a swift, dark ending that races like the wind.“ —Washington Post.   ”A fascinating new play…a postmodern delight…a highly original blend of influences and styles adding up to something new and entirely fresh…As in the best stories of Garcia Marquez, [events] in Aguirre-Sacasa's play quickly become simultaneously darker and funnier…The playwright's bright future seems assured.“ —Washington Blade.   ”A smart, crisply written and engrossing sci-fi narrative in which a mysterious creature does what aliens or the unknown usually do, intensify and illuminate human needs and passions…Aguirre-Sacasa writes so winningly, I fear he'll be snapped up for sit-com writing, rather than go on building what promises to be a "

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