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Feldman,TIME OUT NY  \n→A PLAy  \nROBERT ASKINS  \nhttps://archive.org/details/handtogodplay0000aski  \n# PR AISE FOR HAND TO GOD\n\n\"The freshest and funniest Broadway comedy in years...Hand to Godis to plays as The Book of Mormon is to musicals...it entertains thedevil out of you.”—ADAM FELDMAN,Time Out NY  \n\"Mr.Askins's black comedy about the divided human soul stands out...merry and scary and very welcome.”  \n—CHARLES ISHERWOOD,The New York Times  \n\"An irresistible,intelligent,heartbreaking blood-dark comedy,it's asdisturbing as it is funny,vile as it is violent and,to my mind,better forboth.”—JESSE GREEN,New York magazine  \n\"The Broadway comedy Hand to God is so ridiculously raunchy,irrev-erent,and funny,it's bound to leave you sore from laughing.Ah,hurtsso good.Askins proves deft at writing dialogue that's hysterical and atserving insights about organised religion and family discussion.”  \n—JoE DZIEMIANOWICZ,New York Daily News  \n“\"As touching as it is screamingly funny...Askins's most impressivetalent,though is his ability to make us laugh while juggling those bigthemes that make life so terrifying:death,depression,alcoholism,sex-ual guilt,emotional repression,religious hypocrisy and the eternal battlebetween your good puppet and your bad puppet.”  \n—MARILYN STASIO,Variety  \n\"Darkly funny...Askins is clearly interested in exploring the psychologyof grief,repression of human nature and adolescent unease on his ownunconventional terms,while also making what for many will be quiteprovocative statements about the moral ambiguities of Christianity.  \n—DAVID RoONEY,The Hollywood Reporter  \n“Askins provides a series of beautifully sculpted scenes that intensifyin danger.Arguably the best play of the Broadway season.\"  \n—DAVID FINKLE,Huffington Post  \nROBERT ASKINS's Hand to God opened on Broadway in April 2015,following two critically-acclaimed off-Broadway runs,where it wasnamed a New York Times Critics'Pick and called \"the most entertainingshow of 2014.”His plays include The Squirrels,The Carpenter,and Per-mission,which had its world premiere off-Broadway at MCC Theater.He has received two EST/Sloan grants,the Helen Merrill Emerging Play-wrights Award,and an Arch and Bruce Davis Award for Playwriting.Robis an 1-73 and Youngblood alum and a graduate of Baylor University.  \nHAND TO GOD  \nA Play by  \nROBERT ASKINS  \nTHE OVERLOOK PRESSNEW YORK,NY  \nCAUTION:Professionals and amateurs are hereby warned that all plays in thisbook,being fully protected under the copyright laws of the United States,theBritish Empire including the Dominion of Canada,and allother countries of theCopyright Union,are subject to royalty.All rights,including professional,ama-teur,motion picture,recitation,lecturing,public reading,radio and televisionbroadcasting,and the rights of translation into foreign languages,are strictlyreserved.The stock and amateur performance rights in the English languagethroughout the United States,and its territories and possessions,Canada,andthe Open Market are controlled by Dramatists Play Service,Inc.No professionalor nonprofessional performances of the plays herein(excluding first class pro-fessional performance)may be given without obtaining in advance the writtenpermission.Inquiries concerning all other rights should be addressed to ScottChaloff,William Morris Endeavor Entertainment.  \nThis edition first published in the United States in 2018 byThe Overlook Press,Peter Mayer Publishers,Inc.  \n141 Wooster StreetNew York,NY 10012www.overlookpress.com  \nFor bulk and special sales,please contact sales@overlookpress.com,or write to us at the address above.  \nCopyright ◎2018 by Robert Askins  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced ortransmitted in any form or by any means,electronic or mechanical,including photocopy,recording,or any information storage and retrievalsystem now known or to 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