Synopsis
Sons of the Prophet
$12.99 Published by Nick Hern Books
Large Mixed Cast
As a gay Lebanese-American Maronite Christian in rural Pennsylvania, Joseph Douaihy has a pretty complicated life
But when his father dies as the result of a prank, things truly take a turn for the bizarre
Stephen Karam's play Sons of the Prophet confronts, with intelligence, empathy and tenderness, the inevitability of loss and the equally inevitable comedy which results from our attempts to cope with its consequences
Sons of the Prophet won the New York Drama Critics' Circle and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Play, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama