Overview
Synopsis
Corpus Christi (part auto-biography, part Passion Play) is the story of Joshua, a young gay man, born in Corpus Christi, Texas, who grows up, falls in love, gains 12 followers, and is utimately persecuted for being just as radical with his message of love and self-divinity as another man from Nazareth was nearly 2,000 years before. Terrence McNally's play is highly controversial due to its depiction of Christ and the Apostles as gay men living in modern day Texas. It contrasts modern devices like television with anachronisms like Roman occupation. This Judas betrays Jesus (in McNally's version, known as Joshua) because of sexual jealousy.
Show Information
- Book
- Terrence McNally
- Category
- Play
- Age Guidance
- Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
- Number of Acts
- 2
- First Produced
- 1998
- Genres
- Drama, Historical/Biographical
- Licensor
- Dramatist Play Service
- Ideal For
- professional theatre, community theatre, university theatre, all-male cast, All-Male Cast, All-Female Cast, Small Cast
Context
Plot
Characters
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Songs
A song with an asterisk (*) before the title indicates a dance number; a character listed in a song with an asterisk (*) by the character's name indicates that the character exclusively serves as a dancer in this song, which is sung by other characters.
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