The most controversial and talked about play of the 1998 theatrical season. The play follows a story that parallels the New Testament's, birth, death and resurrection of Jesus. But McNally's Christ figure is a character named Joshua, a young man born and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas in the early 1950s. A homosexual, Joshua grows up in isolation and torment, an object of scorn. He flees Corpus Christi, gathering along the way a group of disciples who are bound to him by his message of love and tolerance. Returning to Corpus Christi, he is betrayed by his lover Judas and crucified in front of the jeering throngs who hated him as a boy. His plea, that we look upon all souls as equal in the sight of God, falls unattended.

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