In one work by this author, a cornered Jewish girl named Violet exclaims that Jesus was a Jew and gets the response "Kind of, but not really" - in that play, a troupe in the village of Oberammergau in Nazi Germany, a collection of persecuted Catholics in Elizabethan England, and a South Dakota town all attempt to put on the title Passion Play. In another play, Jean picks up the title device after the black-market organ salesman Gordon collapses in a diner. This author used a chorus of cruel talking stones, an elevator in which it rains, and a train station in another play to adapt the Greek underworld. In addition to Dead Man's Cell Phone and Eurydice, more recent plays by this author includ
In one work by this author, a cornered Jewish girl named Violet exclaims that Jesus was a Jew and gets the response "Kind of, but not really" - in that play, a troupe in the village of Oberammergau in Nazi Germany, a collection of persecuted Catholics in Elizabethan England, and a South Dakota town all attempt to put on the title Passion Play. In another play, Jean picks up the title device after the black-market organ salesman Gordon collapses in a diner. This author used a chorus of cruel talking stones, an elevator in which it rains, and a train station in another play to adapt the Greek underworld. In addition to Dead Man's Cell Phone and Eurydice, more recent plays by this author include one about the Brazilian housemaid Matilde and her desire to be a comedian, and another in which Mrs. Daldry and Mrs. Givings have boring missionary-position sex lives with their husbands, but receive a treatment for hysteria that lets them orgasm. FTP, name this American author of The Clean House, a contemporary female playwright who wrote the Tony-nominated In The Next Room (or the Vibrator Play).
In one work by this author, a cornered Jewish girl named Violet exclaims that Jesus was a Jew and gets the response "Kind of, but not really" - in that play, a troupe in the village of Oberammergau in Nazi Germany, a collection of persecuted Catholics in Elizabethan England, and a South Dakota town all attempt to put on the title Passion Play.
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