Bringing It All Back Home

Bringing It All Back Home is a one-act play by Terrence McNally. It is a biting satire of a middle-class family and their reaction to losing a son in Vietnam. Productions The play was produced in New Haven in 1969 and at the Provincetown Playhouse, New York City, 1971. It was produced by Solid Hang at the Collective Unconscious, New York, in September 2005. Concept This play is one of several of McNally's that dealt with the Vietnam and Iraq wars: Botticelli (1968), Witness (1968), and Some Men (2007). Peter Wolfe (professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis) notes that Bringing It All Back Home is an anti-war play, and also examines the family.