How do you go home when “home” is an unstable place to be? The question haunts Frances, a neurotic ex-Evangelical queer woman who, as embodied onstage by the actress Jen Tullock, has built herself up with the armor of a coastal intellectual. Tullock, who wrote Nothing Can Take You From the Hand of God with Frank Winters, introduces Frances in her preferred environment, a cozy book talk with an easy interlocutor, where she can opine in a measured, NPR-ready alto about her memoir of the trauma she endured growing up in Kentucky. But soon, the action glitches. Frances’s literary agent is calling, and the church she discussed in her book is threatening to sue. Tullock plays every role in the play and soon zips into the agent’s persona, talking fast, chewing gum. She’s also, in director Jared
Two Plays Where the Lord Might Be Found Back Home

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