Synopsis
The God of Hell
$12 Published by Vintage Books
Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard's latest play is an uproarious, brilliantly
provocative farce that brings the gifts of a quintessentially American
playwright to bear on the current American dilemma
Frank and Emma are a quiet, respectable couple who raise cows on their Wisconsin farm. Soon after they agree to put up Frank's old friend Haynes, who is on the lam from a secret government project involving plutonium, they're visited by Welch, an unctuous government bureaucrat from hell
His aggressive patriotism puts Frank, Emma, and Haynes on the defensive, transforming a heartland American household into a scene of torture and promoting a radioactive brand of conformity with a dangerously long half life