J.B.: A Play in Verse: A Pulitzer Prize Winner, (Paperback)

from the_awesome_opossum

"We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent." In a playhouse, a story of J.B. and Sarah is performed - a pious family who suffers and grieves when all five of their c...

from fingerpost

The Biblical book of Job consists of the "frame" and the "body" of the story. The body is the bulk of the book, and consists of a lengthy debate between Job and his friends. The frame was written l...

from Devil_llama

A look at the story of Job, told through the eyes of two actors, Mr. Zuss and Nickles, who take on the roles of God and Satan respectively. J.B. loses everything, but still refuses to curse God. Th...

from Sullywriter

A modern retelling of the Job story. Love MacLeish's absurdist approach and symbolism.

from Clif

This is a play that provides a contemporary version of the book of Job from the Bible. I'm still in the process of deciding what I think of it. One conclusion from the play is that, "If God is God,...