He is the author of numerous plays, including Master Class and Love! Valour! Compassion! (both winners of the Tony Award for best play), The Ritz, and Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune, which became a movie starring Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer, and the books for the musicals The Rink and Kiss of the Spider Woman, which won the Tony Award for the best book of musical. Other successes include Lips Together, Teeth Apart and The Lisbon Traviata. Other plays by Terrence McNally are: Andre's Mother; Corpus Christi: a play; It's only a Play; !Cuba si! Bringing it all back home, last gasps; and Where has Tommy Flowers Gone.

McNally has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, and a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Lette

They embark on this inner travel, guided by Ganesha, the smiling Indian God. Ganesha is the narrator, commentator and a God who is working enigmatically for the possible best for all. He is also other characters, witness and stage magician, but mainly their spiritual guide.

The play is set in an airport, inside the airplane, the hotel room, landscapes of India and Katherine and Margaret's own bedrooms.

Inserted in the play, Ganesh is also the image of Ganesha that is found in every home, big or small, and sold as souvenir. Katharine searches for a perfect one, buying a dozen of them, and never finding, but always sure that such a perfect Ganesh exists.

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