Dirty Story

This article is about the play. For the thriller, see Dirty Story (Ambler).

Dirty Story is a 2003 play by John Patrick Shanley. It allegorically presents the political relationship between Israel and Palestine as a sexual, sadomasochistic relationship between a man and a woman. This turbulent relationship is refereed by a gun toting, cigarette selling American cowboy and his snide British side-kick. The Off-Broadway premiere was well reviewed by the New York Times.

John Patrick Shanley

Plays written	Savage in Limbo (1984) Italian American Reconciliation (1986) Women of Manhattan (1986) Psychopathia Sexualis (1998) Cellini (2001) Dirty Story (2003) Doubt: A Parable (2004) Defiance (2005) Outside Mullingar (2014)

Films directed	Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) Doubt (2008)