Valhalla

These two iconoclasts are tracked from childhood through their deaths, and while they embody separate eras, they are ultimately revealed as time-traveling soul mates

The play explores questions of beauty and madness, as both Ludwig and James pursue lives of operatic passion

Which brings them in contact with such diverse figures as a high- school quarterback, the prettiest girl in Dainsville, Texas, most of the characters of Lohengrin and Princess Sophie, who declares herself "the loneliest humpback in Europe"

Valhalla is a comic epic, confronting the price to be paid for wanting, and getting, everything you dream of

"You can be sure that a winsomely wicked bon mot will fly by every minute or so" - NY Times

" a dizzy, brisk diptych that connects 19th-century Bavaria to 1940s Texas in a unified field theory of gayness" - Time Out